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A Decorated Late Iron Age Torc from Dinnington, South Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Pauline Beswick ,
M. Ruth Megaw ,
J. V. S. Megaw  and
Peter Northover
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In August 1984 Mr James Rickett, using a metal detector adjacent to a public footpath in a wood near Dinnington, South Yorkshire, found a bronze torc. Recognizing it as an important find he promptly took it into Sheffield City Museum, Weston Park. Subsequently the landowners, Mr and Mrs J. H. Morrell, generously donated the torc to the Museum (Accession no. SHEFM:1984.515). Later a careful survey was made of the wood by staff of Sheffield City Museums and the South Yorkshire Archaeology Unit.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 16 - 33
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1990

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