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An Iron Age Bronze Mirror from Aston, Hertfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Tony Rook ,
P. R. Lowery ,
R. D. A. Savage  and
R. L. Wilkins
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Summary

The Aston mirror plate and its handle were found in ploughsoil, but were derived from a cremation burial which included two pottery vessels tentatively dated in the first century A.D. The area in which the discovery was made shows considerable activity in the Belgic and Romano-British periods. A detailed examination of the mirror, using, inter alia, light-section photomicrography, enables an attempt to be made to group the known mirrors using criteria derived from the techniques employed in the decoration; the Aston mirror falls into an East Anglian Ridge/Chiltern group.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 18 - 34
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1982

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