Bucket handle from a Late Iron Age cremation burial, Iron Age, c75-c25 BC. Artist: Unknown

Bucket handle from a Late Iron Age cremation burial, Iron Age, c75-c25 BC. Artist: Unknown

2-605-082 - © CM Dixon/Heritage Images

Detail showing human face on bucket handle from a Late Iron Age cremation burial, Iron Age, c75-c25 BC. This bucket was placed in the grave of a Briton who was alive around the time of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain. The grave, found in 1886 at Aylesford, Kent, was one of the first Late Iron Age cremation graves to be studied by archaeologists. From the British Museum's collection.


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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
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  1. CM Dixon: British: Photographer

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Society & Culture Death & Burial

History & Politics Artefacts


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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4266x4123
File Size : 51,530kb


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  1. 2DKY5
  1. 2C
  1. 0370002366
  1. 2-605-082
  1. 2605082

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