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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy, one piece Late Iron Age brooch of unusual form. This brooch has straight, short side wings, which are now severely worn. The remains of a forward facing hook can also be seen, but again this is truncated and severely worn. Nothing remains of the integral spring coil, chord or pin shaft. The bow of the brooch is suboval in section. It extends vertically from the head for 17.1mm and then takes a sharp 90-degree turn downwards continuing for 42.58mm, tapering to a sharp point with an increasingly flattened section. At the point of the bend is an integral, globular boss which is plain and fairly crude. The reverse of the brooch is plain, and nothing survives of the catchplate, except for a flat scar where it once was. The brooch has an even mid green patina and survives in good condition. Given the worn edges on the wings and hook, damage presumably occurred in antiquity.It is 4.1mm wide across the bow, 6.36mm wide across the boss, 4.66mm thick at the upper bow, 7.1mm thick at the boss and weighs 6.09g This brooch has been described by Nina Crummy (pers. Comm) as a Knotenfibeln with side wings and forward hook, occurring in a sequence ahead of Knotenfibeln with side wings and just before the 'Colchester' brooches with their familiar forward hooks, of cAD20-70. A published example from Elms Farm, Essex is forthcoming. It is also similar to a brooch type described as Feugère as type 14a dating from 10-20BC. Though this type has the short wings, forward hook and similar sharply bent profile, it does not have the boss on the bow. The brooch recorded here is therefore a late Iron Age brooch with the 'Colchester' type chord hook , probably predating the Roman invasion, c20BC-20AD. It would also be fair to suggest that this brooch is a continental import from the Rhineland or Gaul.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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