Export ban on rare Celtic mirror

[History Hunter]

A rare Iron Age Celtic mirror and two brooches have been made the subject of a temporary export ban in a bid to keep the items in the UK. Click Here

[piker]

how do you feel about importing artifacts history hunter?

[munkiezuncal]

Wonder how it arrived on the open market ?

[Corinne Mills]

Property of the landowner perhaps?

[Donnydave]

£35,000 I threw one of them in the hedge bottom I thought it was corroded frying pan or like they say many a true word spoken in jest

[m300572]

£35,000 I threw one of them in the hedge bottom I thought it was corroded frying pan or like they say many a true word spoken in jest

I've got one very similar at home (honest!!!) Made for me by a chap called Neil Burridge who runs bronze casting courses

[Axeman]

£35,000 I threw one of them in the hedge bottom I thought it was corroded frying pan or like they say many a true word spoken in jest

Dave, the guy who makes the repro coins, was telling me last weekend about a detectorist who brought some finds in for him to identify. Apart from having to tell the guy that he'd devalued his Roman coin collection by 95% through cleaning them until they gleamed , he was able to let him know that the ironwork he'd chucked in the river (Witham) was, in fact, the framework of an Anglo-Saxon helmet - of which there are only a handful of known examples

Moral - just because it's iron doesn't mean it's unimportant...

[Steve-B]

Made for me by a chap called Neil Burridge who runs bronze casting courses

Did you get to watch the process, if so must have been fascinating.

he was able to let him know that the ironwork he'd chucked in the river (Witham) was, in fact, the framework of an Anglo-Saxon helmet - of which there are only a handful of known examples

The guy must have been a tit then, I dont know any detctorist down here that would throw away anything, whatever it was made of before they had a proper ID... what a pity.

[Donnydave]

Made for me by a chap called Neil Burridge who runs bronze casting courses

Did you get to watch the process, if so must have been fascinating.

he was able to let him know that the ironwork he'd chucked in the river (Witham) was, in fact, the framework of an Anglo-Saxon helmet - of which there are only a handful of known examples

The guy must have been a tit then, I dont know any detctorist down here that would throw away anything, whatever it was made of before they had a proper ID... what a pity.

Makes you wonder what we are leaving behind discriminating out iron, but I would not move more than twenty yards in a session if I dug every signal including iron, makes my back twinge writing about it

[Puffin]

Used to chuck all my iron in the club field bucket, I bring it home now, just in case.

[John32]

35 grand for the mirror . I've got part of an iron age mirror handle. Must be worth 5 then.

[m300572]

No I didn't get to see Neil making it - a friend sourced it for me but I have done a bit of bronze casting in the past - mainly fast and easy stuff like flat axes.

Anglo Saxon helmet frame thrown away . The list of known examples is not long - Benty Grange, the Pioneer helmet, the Coppergate helmet and the Sutton Hoo helmet. So four from about five hundred years!!