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Description: | Knotenfibel, complete except for the foot and part of the catchplate. The name Knotenfibel has no good English equivalent; it refers to a Late Iron Age one-piece brooch with a moulding on the bow derived from the returned foot of a La Tene II brooch. This example has a bent but complete pin, and a spring made up of two wide coils to either side of the pin and a chord running under the top of the bow. Below, an expanded flat-section bow tapers to a circular-section moulding. The moulding is decorated with fine cross-hatching all around its circumference, and has a groove and a narrow moulding above and below. Below, the bow flattens again, and tapers very gently to the broken-off foot. The remains of the catchplate show that it had a triangular perforation. Original length perhaps 60 mm. Similar to Hattatt no. 750, but with a longer button and different bow section. The original surface of the brooch is mostly missing and the brooch appears to have suffered chemical erosion, perhaps from over-harsh cleaning, which has removed nearly all its patina. This means that all surface decoration, other than a small area of cross-hatching on the reverse of the moulding, has been lost.
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