LOT 538 Iron Age Massive Italic Bow Brooch
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8th-5th century BC. A very large bronze brooch comprising a square-section bow with two coils attached to a round-section arm with spiral ribbing to the head, bulbous collar, s-curved catch and discoid plaque to the foot. Cf. Hattatt, R. Ancient and Romano-British Brooches, Sherborne, 1982, item 197. 172 grams, 25.5cm (10"). Formerly in the Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s; collection number E1; formerly in the Fabulous Fibulas collection, Southern UK; formed in the 1980s and 1990s. Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as Âan important research source by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and Âtreasure houses of delight by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd  as a collector, dealer and valuer  can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s.
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