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CELTO-PANNONIAN BOW BROOCH GROUP 1st century AD A mixed group of bronze bow brooches of Pannonian type, pins absent. 280 grams total, 25-45mm (1 - 1 3/4"). [48, No Reserve] Condition Fine condition. Provenance The Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s; collection numbers CP5,6,12 and 15; formerly in the Fabulous Fibulas collection, Southern UK; formed in the 1980s and 1990s. Footnotes Chris Rudd says: 'In the early 1990s when I began dealing in Celtic coins I developed an interest in the tribes of eastern Europe. One such tribe was the Pannonii, a group of Illyrian peoples who had absorbed Celtic influences to varying degrees. Their territory lay south and west of the Danube (Danuvius) in the valleys of the Drava and Sava and the latter's Bosnian tributaries. In 119 BC the Romans campaigned against the Pannonii, seizing Siscia. In 35 BC Octavian (Augustus) established a garrison at Siscia. The conquest of the Pannonii, notably the Breuci in the Sava valley, was completed ruthlessly by Tiberius and the Roman province of Pannonia was set up in AD 9. However, Celtic cultural influence continued to permeate everday life in Pannonia, just as it did in Britannia after the Claudian invasion of AD 43. This Celtic influence can be seen in Pannonian brooches. In the 1990s, I formed this small collection of Celto-Pannonian brooches. It was intended to be a 'study group' and I was more interested in varieties of type, rather than quality; which is why almost all these brooches lack pins and are cheap. The Kräftig Profilierte ('strongly profiled') type is well represented here. They