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Description: | The object is a late Iron Age to early Roman brooch of La Tene date. The brooch is made from one piece of cast copper alloy.
The spring is the upper most component of the brooch. Only one coil remains of the spring. The pin is also missing. The coil is integral to the wings which are formed by a sub-rectangular arm either side of the bow head. The bow head is integral and protrudes from the centre of the wings. The spring and the bow are shaped so that they form an inverted ?L? shape in profile. The corner is just below the bow head. The bow head and bow is semi-circular in section. At the mid point of the bow there is another right-angled bend which forms an angular ?C? in plan. The lower portion of the bow is slightly twisted and the upper edge has an irregular ridge which was probably the catch plate at one time. The terminal of the bow tapers to a point, and this terminal is also bent to one side at right-angles.
The brooch is incomplete, and has been heavily abraded or cleaned. There are traces of a dark green patina, otherwise the surface is a orange/brown colour. There are also smears of blue tac on the surface.
In length the brooch is 45.99mm long from the coil to the bend at the mid point of the bow, and is 11.67mm wide across the wings. It weighs 8.32g. | 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: | -100
43 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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