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A Celtic Mirror from Great Chesterford
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The mirror is likely to have come from a lady’s grave: no details of the find are available. There is in the parish a well-known cemetery dating from the beginning of the Early Iron Age.The overall length of the mirror with its handle (PLATE XXVI) is 23·5 cm. (11·75 in.); the diameter of the plate is 16·3 cm. (8·15 in.). This has a delicate incised line round its circumference, close to the edge, back and front, as the photographs show.The face of the mirror is smooth and glossy: the piece suffered some damage when disclosed—probably by a plough-share. It is thus slightly bent at the top (losing, here, its smooth reflecting surface), and the handle has been wrenched, causing a crack in the plate to the right and above it. It should be noted that there is no loss of detail of the pattern on the mirror-back resulting from this crack: the dark strip on the photograph (PLATE XXVII) is, in part, a shadow cast by lateral displacement.
Title: A Celtic Mirror from Great Chesterford
Description:
The mirror is likely to have come from a lady’s grave: no details of the find are available.
There is in the parish a well-known cemetery dating from the beginning of the Early Iron Age.
The overall length of the mirror with its handle (PLATE XXVI) is 23·5 cm.
(11·75 in.
); the diameter of the plate is 16·3 cm.
(8·15 in.
).
This has a delicate incised line round its circumference, close to the edge, back and front, as the photographs show.
The face of the mirror is smooth and glossy: the piece suffered some damage when disclosed—probably by a plough-share.
It is thus slightly bent at the top (losing, here, its smooth reflecting surface), and the handle has been wrenched, causing a crack in the plate to the right and above it.
It should be noted that there is no loss of detail of the pattern on the mirror-back resulting from this crack: the dark strip on the photograph (PLATE XXVII) is, in part, a shadow cast by lateral displacement.
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