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Description: | Cast copper alloy La T??ne I brooch. A large one piece bow brooch. At the head is the spring of coiled wire and its external chord. This was drawn from the main body of the brooch. Below this the brooch expands into D-sectioned arching bow, dropping to a tapered foot with a hooked catchplate to the right side. Beyond this the foot continues into a backward hooked tail with a knopped "snake-head" terminal. There are cast decorative ridges on the tail before the expanded terminal. The pin is not attached to the spring, but has been added to the brooch by curling it over the hollow, tubular axis bar through the coils. This may be a ??Wessex ??type brooch which Hattatt notes have a false spring, but as the pin is too short to reach the catchplate it may be a standard one piece brooch which has been broken and mended. Date: Iron Age - La T??ne I - 4th to 3rd century BC Dimensions: 58.78 mm x 14.84 mm x 16.21 mm Weight: 15.36 g Reference: Similar to Hattatt, R, 2000, "A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches", page 288, Fig 147, No. 725 | Subjects: | La T??ne I | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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