7th-2nd century BCE
This thin rectangular-sectioned bar is bent into a circle, with the ends overlapping. It may have been a bracelet or is perhaps simply a bent scrap.
4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Copper alloy
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5th-6th centuryRomanMixed copper alloy
5th-6th centuryAnglo-SaxonBronze
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19th centuryChineseGold
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