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Description: | Imcomplete copper alloy Late Iron Age/ Early Roman La Tene III type brooch, missing much of its spring, pin and with damage to its catchplate. The bow tapers from 5.2mm wide directly below the one surviving coil (break ancient) over c.30mm to 2.8mm wide, where the lower bow turns sharply downwards narrowing into the catchplate whic is 0.6mm thick and squashed. It is also rather long at 19mm. The edge is damaged and the curl missing. The edge of the bow is decorated on each side with equally-spaced diagonal 'nicks. Bent length 47.3mm (probably longer than original length as lower bow bent slightly outwards). Weighs 2.56g. 1st century BC/ AD. | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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