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Description: | An early La Tene I style, copper alloy brooch consisting of two wings and a bow. The wings are round sectioned and end in spherical knobs. There is a sharply defined collar where these knobs join the wing and a central knob at the junction of the wings and the bow. The latter has a pronounced arch and has a hollow back, that may have been to reduce the weight of the brooch. The bow turns back on itself making a loop by the catchplate and has another knob finishing it off. The pin is missing. Jope [2000, p44] illustrates two arched brooches from Woodeaton, Oxon that he dates to 3rd century BC. These have a similarly shaped and knobbed but have decorative mouldings on the brooch wings
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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