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Description: | A cast copper alloy one-piece brooch. Only a fragment of the spring remains, just half a coil which leads from the upper edge of the bow, and is integral to the bow. The break of the spring is not recent as the patina covers the break. As the spring is missing, the pin is also. The bow is an elongated sub-triangle in plan with the upper edge tapering slightly to form the coil. The lower tip is broken, and again this does not appear to be a recent break. The upper portion of the bow is curved in profile and the lower portion is straight. The outer face of the bow is decorated with a central column of fine obliquely angled notches. The catchplate is missing. The brooch has a well developed dark green patina with pitting occurring on the reverse. It measures 34.36mm long by 8.03mm wide across the bow. It weighs 1.8g. The brooch is a La Tene III Nauheim derivative type which dates to c. 25 to 100 AD (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter).
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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