Artist: Unknown
Location: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Date: circa 950-750 BC
Materials: gold
Dimensions: various
Grant
Amount Paid: ?12,500 (Total: ?35,000)
Vendor: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Provenance:
Discovered by a metal detector user in Foxley, Norfolk, in 2005 and subsequently declared Treasure.
This collection of seven gold bracelets is the largest of its kind to be recovered in Norfolk.Gold was a highly-prized and valuable metal in Bronze Age society, and it is exceptionally rare to find Bronze Age goldwork here in Britain. Gold was sourced mainly in Ireland as well as Wales, Cornwall and possibly Scotland, so the existence of these unusual bracelets in Norfolk is fascinating evidence of the way elite members of Late Bronze Age society developed fur-flung contacts for trade and exchange
