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Reproduction of the "Battersea Shield", c.300-100 BC, the original is within the British Museum (76.123). The shield was made of sheets of bronze held onto a wooden backing with rivets. It's decoration included 27 studs of opaque red enamel and chemical analysis suggests that the shield was made no later that the 2nd century BC. Museum of London, London. |