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Description: | An incomplete Iron Age La Tene IBc brooch with a narrow, leaf-shaped bow bearing a plain pointed oval motif. A short foot recurves to meet the bow more or less straight on and terminates in a plain snouted disc. Only one and a half coils of the spring mechanism survive, though it is likely that the brooch was originally equipped with a four-coil mock spring with external chord. It falls within a small insular group of leaf-bow brooches designated Group 1Bc by Hull and Hawkes (1987, 107-110) and dated by them to the third and fourth centuries BC.(Two other brooches of similar form and decoration have been reported from Belton in Norfolk (Hattatt 1989, 14-14, nos 1447 & 1447a.) As a group, leaf-bow brooches have a southern British distribution centred on the Thames valley and areas adjacent. The slender bow of the present piece is reminiscent of examples from Woodeaton and Ewell (Hull and Hawkes 1987, Pl 32, 2917 & 7376bis), though the decoration is more restrained on this example. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -400
-200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | David Williams | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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