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Description: | An incomplete damaged and misshapen copper alloy La Tene III 'Nauheim' derivative brooch of 'Winchester' style (Hattatt 1987, 21). Overall length 60.6mm, maximum width of bow 7.2mm and thickness of bow 0.9mm. Weight 2.69g.The brooch was cast in one piece and then wrought. The pin and most of the spring are missing due to an old break. The spring, when complete, would probably have had four coils and an internal chord. The surviving part of the spring is circular in cross-section and has a diameter of 0.9mm. Due to agricultural activity the brooch has become almost straightened so that its original form cannot be accurately ascertained. In its present state, the bow flares outwards evenly from the spring to a point mid-way along its length and then tapers inwards evenly towards the catch-plate. However, it is reasonable to suggest that originally the head of the bow projected outwards at roughly a right angle from the coiled spring. The face of the bow was vertical and the extended catch-plate projected to the rear at roughly a right angle to the face of the bow. The front of the flat bow is decorated with grooves which appear to have been incised. Close to the top of the bow are two parallel horizontal grooves at 2.2mm apart and about mid-way along the length of the bow there is a single horizontal groove. At the foot of the bow, just above the catch-plate are three parallel horizontal grooves set close together. At the left hand side of the bow (as viewing the front) there is a vertical groove. There appears to be the scant remains of a similar groove on the left side of the bow. However the presence of this latter groove is uncertain due to wear and corrosion.As stated, the brooch is misshapen. It has an oblique fracture at the top of the bow and a horizontal fracture mid-way along the length of the bow. A patina has not survived and it has patches of superficial copper alloy corrosion products. The surface colour of the metal is a dull reddish brown.When complete, this brooch may have had a close resemblance to one from Dorset, albeit with differing decoration. See Hattatt 1987, 22, fig. 9, ref. 741. Compare also with a similar brooch recorded from the Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-DD3763.
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