LOT 376 'The Kirkby Lonsdale' Brigantes Celtic Horse Harness...
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1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. A substantial bronze harness fittingposed of circular body with deliberate asymmetrical central openwork La Tène oval and tear-shapes forming three 'hidden faces'prising of a human face and two side profile puffin-like faces, red enamelled border, strap arm to each sideposed of two circular arms with a round-section bar between. Cf. The Trustees of The British Museum., Later Prehistoric Antiquities Of The British Isles, London, 1953, pl. XI, forparable forms; cf. Jope, E.M., Early Celtic Art In The British Isles, Oxford, 2000, pl.276, for similar types; and Hammond, A., Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, 4th edition, 2021, p.122-124, for several much smaller examples. Hammond, Brett, British Artefacts Volume 4 - The Celtic Iron Age, Greenlight publishing, 2022, (forting) for this example. 51.2 grams, 71 mm (2 3/4 in.). Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, UK, on Tuesday 10th May 2022. Apanied by a copy of the book British Artefacts Volume 4 - The Celtic Iron Age, when published. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11403-190465. The Brigantes were a tribe, or perhaps more accurately a loose confederation of related tribes, of British Celts inhabiting most of the area between the Humber and the Tyne. The name of the tribe originates from the Celtic goddess Brigantia.
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