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Description: | An unusual copper alloy brooch, probably La Tene I type. The bow is curved with knobbed segments moulded on the upper surface (four segments on the bow and slightly higher segments forming the head and the foot). The underside of the central four segments is hollow, as in brooches with 'leaf-shaped' bows. The underside of the head and foot is flat and solid. On one side of the head is a separately constructed wing with two conjoined spherical knobs. The width across the wing is 20.22mm. This appears to be inserted through a hole drilled in the head, with the end of the attachment shank visible on the other side of the head. The foot appears to have worn grooves on both sides with an upturned flange on the side without the arm that would have acted as a catchplate. It is not clear how a pin would have been attached to the head; it may have been wound round the projecting arm, recalling the shape of later involute brooches.
The date of this brooch is uncertain as no parallel has been found. It may be a Late Hallstatt British Group L (Hull & Hawkes 1987). An early brooch from Woodeaton had arms with terminal knobs (Jope 2000 Plate 37h) but this brooch does not have a comparable attachment for the pin at the head end. The segmented bow may have continental parallels. | 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: | Jennifer Moss | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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