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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy one piece La Tène III or 'Nauheim' derivative brooch. The head of the brooch is formed from the coil of the spring, which has three of the four coils surviving. The pin shaft is entirely missing. The integral bow of the brooch is triangular in plan and flat in section. It tapers into a narrow leg, no more than a thin shaft of metal that terminates in a blunt point. The leg of the brooch has been bent at approximately 90 degrees back behind the brooch. Nothing of the catchplate survives. The front of the bow is decorated with a moulded, broad flat mid rib, which extends and tapers with the foot of the brooch. There is a slight raised line that runs along each edge of the bow and leg. The original surface of the object partially survives with a mid brown patina. The exposed surfaces are light green. Break edges are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch is 36.08mm to the point of the bend and then extends for approximately another 23mm (59.08mm in total). It is 13.84mm wide across the spring, 14.48mm wide across the bow, tapering to 2.28mm at the tip of the foot. The bow is 1.5mm thick and the brooch weighs 6.01g. Examples of this type of brooch can be seen in Hattatt, 1985, Iron Age and Roman Brooches, Oxbow Books: Oxford, figure 9. They date from the early 1st century BC and continue into the 1st century AD.
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