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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.