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Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)

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Ill Massive Triple Collar of Gold, from Cintra, near Lisbon.In type it resembles the triple tore of the Late Bronze Age inScandinavia, but .the tulip-like additions on either side of themovable limb point rather to the Hallstatt period. • Perhaps ?>fh century B. c. I). 6-2 in. Weight, 4007.. 170… … IV Bronze Bucket with cordons and zones embossed with birdsand wheels symbolic of the sun, from the famous burial-ground atHallstatt, Upper Austria. The type is familiar and characteristicof the Hallstatt period, but specimens are seldom found in suchgood condition. It was excavated in 1869, and…

Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval

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