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A Decorated Shield-Boss from the River Trent, near Ratcliffe-on-Soar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Jeffrey Watkin ,
Ian Stead ,
Duncan Hook  and
Susan Palmer
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Part of an Iron Age shield has recently been identified amongst the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire, adding another example to the corpus of Iron Age shields recently published in this journal. The newly recognized remains are in three parts and were recorded in the museum's accessions register as ‘3 pieces of horse armour’. These pieces were re-identified as the boss, spine and terminal discs of an Iron Age shield in the course of a project carried out between September 1992 and March 1994 to fully document and record on a computer database the whole of the museum's collection. Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum is managed by Warwick District Council and the three pieces have the accession numbers M1092.1928.1–3.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 76 , March 1996 , pp. 17 - 30
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1996

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