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Bronze Unit Hengistbury Wreath
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-45 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (10-45) - VA 1329: Four pellets - ND (10-45) - VA 1330: Four pellets, hammered - ND (10-45) - VA 1332: Six pellets - |
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The Durotriges occupied a stretch of what is now Dorset and Somerset, and Hengistbury Head functioned as one of the most active cross-Channel trading ports in pre-Roman Britain — receiving wine amphorae, figs, and glass from Gaul and the Mediterranean well into the late Iron Age. That trade collapsed sharply after Caesar's Gallic campaigns disrupted continental networks, and the tribe's coinage simultaneously underwent a striking debasement from gold to silver to bronze over roughly a century, this unit representing the final, fully bronze stage of that descent.