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Two neckrings from Chickerell Two neckrings from Chickerell
Two neckrings from Chickerell Two neckrings from Chickerell
© Dorset County Museum
© Dorset County Museum

Two neckrings from Chickerell

Bronze Age

Art Funded
2000
Vendor
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Late Bronze Age solid bar neckrings.

Provenance

Excavated near Chickerell, Dorset, in February 1999 and declared Treasure.

Gold

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Art we’ve helped buy at Dorset County Museum

Two Views of Witchampton
 Acquired 1987
Two neckrings from Chickerell
 Acquired 2000
Two fragments of Saxon chessmen & Hutchin's History of Dorset vols I-IV
 Acquired 1987
The Portesham mirror
 Acquired 1995
Sketch for the portrait of Thomas Hardy, OM
 Acquired 1950
Pyramidal mount
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of John Bragge
 Acquired 1983
Four Marble Busts
 Acquired 1980
Finger ring
 Acquired 2000
Festoon mantlepiece
 Acquired 1996
Coach panel
 Acquired 1977
1) Thomas Rackett the Elder; 2) Mrs Thomas Rackett; 3) Thomas Rackett the Younger
 Acquired 2008

Dorset County Museum has received nine grants from the Art Fund totalling over £100,000. Highlights include three portraits by George Romney of Thomas Rackett the Elder and his family. Rackett had been rector at Spetisbury, Dorset for 59 years. Thanks to Art Fund assistance the museum also has amongst its collection two Bronze age neckrings; the Portesham Mirror dating to 40 AD and a Baroque decorative Coach Panel by Dorset born painter James Thornhill which, it is believed, was painted for one of George I's coaches.

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