Mid 14th-mid 12th century BC. A complete pair of copper-alloy ribbed bracelets of Rowlands type 3A; sub-circular in plan, broad in profile, and flat in section, the interior surface of both bracelets flattened, with a series of three evenly spaced ribs on the exterior surface, the central rib is more pronounced, whilst the outer two ribs form parallel-everted sides to the bracelet; the bracelets are completed with triangular terminals formed by folding over the sheet copper-alloy. See Rowlands, M.J., 'The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Britain,' in British Archaeological Reports 31 (i-ii), Oxford, 1976.184 grams total, 64-67mm (2 1/2"). Property of an Austrian private collector since the 1970s. In 2012, a Middle Bronze Age hoard was discovered while metal detecting on cultivated land. The find consists of forty-one copper-alloy objects split across two deposits or concentrations of finds, with a small number of finds found a short distance away. All the objects are of a similar typo-chronology and are likely to represent a single hoard comprised of thirty one 'ornaments', eight 'tools' and four 'other' or unidentified objects. Our bracelets, similar for shape and dimensions to the hoard bracelets (Find ID 538672 of PAS), and can be fixed chronologically to a similar context. [2]