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Four British broad-flanged symmetrical bronze strainers from Thorpe, Surrey; Coygan Cave, Pembrokeshire; Marston Moor, Yorkshire and Helmsdale, Sutherland are described and postulated as the products of a single military workshop. The writer observes that whilst their associations indicate a date in the 1st or early 2nd century AD, the decorative elements embodied in the embellishment of the flange and perforation pattern show analogies with a traditional design for drinking equipment with an ancestry set in the type of Graeco-Celtic straining device found at Vix.