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Iron Age copper alloy strainer
A bronze wine-strainer of Late Iron Age date. Decorated in the La Tene Art style. The wine-strainer is of a known form with vroad brims of flanges and with no handles. It has been fitted with an excutcheon and suspension ring, similar to the bowls and will comfortably sit on both bowls. The strainer has a round bottomed body with a wide circular flange or brom. The base is decorated with a circular perforation patern, defining a triskele motif. The strainer has a simple looped escutcheon on the underside of the flange, holding a small suspension ring.
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Site Name: Langstone, Monmouthshire
Notes: Found in a lowe-lying and periodically waterlogged field under rough pasture. An archaeological investigation of the findspot determined that the finds had been carefully deposited within a peaty waterlogged deposit, 0.30 - 0.70m beneath the ground surface.