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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, La Tene I type. Missing pin and part of spring; the remaining two spring coils are bent. The bow has a deep back with partially flattened centre ridge and a similar shape front giving a lozenge-shaped section, narrowing from 4mm wide at the bow apex to the circular section rod, 1.5mm across, of the spring and the foot. The centre of the bow has a pointed oval defined by two grooves and with two transverse grooves at the spring end and three similar at the foot end, plus notches on the centre ridge off the crest. The foot has a small catchplate behind the bow junction and a return with an expanded knob and reel moulding and a small terminal knob defined by a single groove. Surviving length 51mm. The type is similar to Hull & Hawkes (1987) type 1B but the foot knob would be uncommon in Britain. Without provenance it can merely be suggested that this brooch was made on the Continent.
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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