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Figure U.5 Top: characteristic graphite-clay cooking pot with comb decoration, from
Manching. (From Kappel 1969: pI. I, no. 4.) Bottom left: jar of fine pottery with painted band
decoration, from Manching. (Maier 1970: pI. 5, no. 120.) Bottom right: high jar of fine pottery
with painted band and cross-hatch decoration, from Manching. (Maier 1970: pI. 82, no. II77.)
(All reproduced with permission from Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.)
Ring jewellery was common and is found particularly in burials, but also in hoard
deposits, especially in the final two centuries before Christ. Bronze is the most
common material (Figure 12.6, no. 4), but iron rings also occur, and gold rings are
found in special contexts, in rich burials of the ,period 550-400 Be and in hoard
deposits from 150-50 Be. In Britain, of special significance are large numbers of gold
torques made in East Anglia during the final century Be. At Snettisham, eight sets of221