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Currency bars

Two 'currency bars' which had been buried deliberately (ritually placed) in the ditch of Enclosure 2. They are made of iron and shaped like spear heads. Items such as these date from around 200 BC to the end of the 1st century BC. They used to be regarded by archaeologists as an early form of currency although now there is a theory that they had ritual significance particulary when found in boundary ditches. These are the only currency bars known from Essex.

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