Ave!
Celtic, Hair Band, Iron age, ca, 500-200 BC
Copper alloy; 5.6gm
Con/ As fabricated; dark green patina
Seller's Note/ Celtic women wore their hair plated
into braids and they would have been inserted within the band, not only as a
shiny adornment but to also the keep their braids intact. As many as a dozen or
more of such hair bands would have been applied for that extra 'bling'!
This is one of the most primitive metal hair
bands, consisting of a single coiled copper wire, and was common from the
Bronze Age to early Iron Age. As this ring/hair band was ground found in a
small Celtic settlement, our attribution is assured. But again, such artifacts
are extremely difficult to date and could be much older than noted
above...possibly as early as 1500 BC...?
A number of similar have been posted as
Celtic proto money and they could very well be listed as such as rings, but they are not.