This article is a case study of the detailed contextual and scientific analysis of a single object, moving beyond a conventional object biography to consider flows of materials and shifts in meaning and value. The object is a simple triangular silver ingot from the Late Iron Age shrine site at Hallaton, Leicestershire, UK. Scientific analysis is used to uncover the biography of the ingot, and the raw materials from which it was created. The results suggest that the metal which eventually formed the ingot circulated through both Iron Age and Roman social networks, being reworked and transformed several times before it was deposited. Silver emerges as a material which mediated between the Mediterranean world and Iron Age communities in Britain, allowing translation and transmutation between different systems of value in conquest‐period Britain.

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哈灵顿银锭：英国铁器时代的银

本文是对单个对象进行详细的上下文和科学分析的案例研究，它超越了传统的对象传记，而是考虑了物质的流动以及意义和价值的变化。该物体是英国莱斯特郡哈兰顿晚期铁器时代神社遗址中的一个简单的三角形银锭。科学分析用于发现铸锭的传记以及制造铸锭的原材料。结果表明，最终形成铸锭的金属通过铁器时代和罗马社会网络循环流通，在沉积之前经过了多次重加工和转化。白银的出现是在地中海世界和英国铁器时代社区之间进行调解的一种材料，可以在征服时期的英国不同价值体系之间进行转换和trans变。。