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! -£1(b) (c)Figure 21.6 Possible prestige exchange gifts: (a) Flesh-hook of bronze, from Dunaverney, Co.
Antrim, Northern Ireland: sixth century BC. The five swans, cygnets and ravens seem sepa-
rately added through newly made holes in the shaft; they are quite unusual in the British Isles
at such a date: they seem to have been added to this native type of flesh-hook, and perhaps
they came by gift-exchange from Celtic Europe; (b) shows a similar bird (to be similarly fit-
ted) from the princely burial at the Magdalenenberg, in the Black Forest; (c) Bronze openwork
disc, 9 cm across, from Danebury, Hants; probably of Continental making, later fifth to ear-
lier fourth centuries BC. The only means of attachment is a very slender pin at centre, which
suggests it may have been the central mount on the top of a trinket box of very fine wood, the
fineness of the pin intended to avoid splitting the wood (no sign of resin to hold it in place
was detected). Such a piece might well have been a prestige gift to a lady of rank. ((a) Photo:
British Museum; c 1:2; (b) Spindler 1976: pI. 2; (c) E.M. lope)