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Description: | Copper alloy Iron Age La Tene III Nauheim Derivative brooch. This one-piece brooch has a worn break on the spring, leaving 3 of 4 turns surviving. The spring in circular in cross-section. The rectangular bow is flat and narrow, with a rectangular cross-section. It is decorated with two vertical lines of small punched squares. There is a recent break across the base of the bow, above where the integrally cast triangular catchplate would have been located. The brooch has an even mid to dark green patina. The surviving section of the brooch is 25.09mm long, 8.87mm wide, 6.66mm thick and weighs 1.31 grams. The brooch is similar to Hattatt 1987 figure 9 number 739, however the example in Hattatt has two double lines of punchmarks, where as this example only has single rows. Nauheim Derivative brooches date from the 1st century BC, and continued in use until the 1st century 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: | -80
60 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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