Find Spot record LKH 559 - Iron Age penannular bracelet, Shepherd's Fen

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Summary

`A penannular bronze bracelet, worked up from a cylindrindrical rod of bronze, with blunt expanded terminals, was found in Shepherd's Fen near Mildenhall. Formerly recorded as LKH MISC

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 69 85 (1000m by 1000m)
Map sheet TL68NE
Civil Parish LAKENHEATH, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

`A penannular bronze bracelet, worked up from a cylindrindrical rod of bronze, with blunt expanded terminals, was found in Shepherd's Fen near Mildenhall. It is ornamented at either end with a high conventionalised animal's head ...' (S1).
Listed as penannular rod torc (in error?) by Morna MacGregor (S2). Shepherd's Fen is in Lakenheath parish, S of Joist Fen (note IA & Rom finds) and adjoining the Stallode (note IA & Rom finds).

Formerly recorded as LKH MISC

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> (No record type): Lethbridge, T.C. & O'Reilly, M.M.. Lethbridge T C & O'Reilly M M, `Archaeol Notes', PCAS, 31, 1931, 152, plate 6, fig 1.
  • <S2> (No record type): MacGregor, A.. MacGregor M, Early Celtic Art in N Britain, 1976, 113, map 14.
  • <S3> Article in serial: Clarke R R. 1939. The Iron Age in Norfolk and Suffolk II.
  • <S4> Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.

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Record last edited

Oct 4 2021 12:39PM

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