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Record ID: DOR-B3C8E0
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A bent and twisted gold bracelet dating to the Middle Bronze Age c.1400-1100 cal BC. The bracelet is made from a single rectangular gold sheet that is crescent shaped in section with a convex outer surface and concave inner surface.  It was presumably originally curved into a penannular hoop without twists, however, it is now twisted into a spiral consisting of at three turns which is mostly flat in profile. Both ends of the strip end in clean transverse terminals which are slightly expanded. It is not clear whether these terminals represent the original length of …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melcombe Horsey', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-534FA7
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two conjoining pieces of copper alloy, D-sectioned bracelet. The outer surface has moulded decoration consisting of two groups of three regularly spaced convex projections (two smaller flanking one larger) each flanked by a raised transverse rib and separated by a deep groove. The two groups would have been on opposite sides of the now bent bracelet. One side is considerably more worn than the other. Its dimensions are: 146.59mm x 13.57mm x 5.93mm
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2004
Last updated: Sunday 15th January 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR1600
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of shale bracelet. Sub-circular sectioned (one surface is slightly flattened, the other slightly pointed). Lathe turned with visible concentric ridges.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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