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Description: | Late Iron Age copper alloy brooch, 59mm long, 13mm wide, with a weight of 5.4 grams. The object is one piece La Tene III brooch with rectangular sectioned spring coil. The brooch is in very good condition with a pale green patina but is missing the last coil in the spring and the pin. The lower half of the brooch has been flattened to form an elongated catchplate, 20mm long and 10mm wide, which has a slightly turned edge to hold the pin. From here the brooch becomes gradually rounded in section, 4mm diameter, and bulges slightly close to the top. From here the spring emerges from the shaft, becoming square in section. The spring is formed of two coils to the left of the shaft, it then folds underneath the spring and back towards the top, where if not broken it would have formed another spring coil before emerging from the back as the pin. The brooch is similar to No.10, Fig.149 In Hattatt, except this example has no decoration.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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