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Hi Hendrik, This discussion had made me think of some of the lovely things you've shown here in the past, and I was hoping it would entice you to show more of them. These two are really fine and the second one especially is quite rare in this condition. I never know how to describe its strange shape - sort of oval or a rounded triangle, I guess. There are a lot of variants on this shape and generally they seem to be found in an area of northern Burma around Mandalay - sometimes further north, but not much in the south. Dating is still pretty tentative for early Burmese artefacts, but bangles like these, sometimes as large as 20+centimetres in length, seem to have been produced in a pre-Samon Valley period from about 1,000 BCE to 300 BCE. I wouldn't be surprised if these dates were pushed back to an earlier time frame by future finds. Round bangles like your first example, with an interior lip, are found much more widely in SE Asia, and in southern Burma as well as the north. Thanks for showing them. Cheers, Will All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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