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Description: | Complete 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 all four coils surviving. Two coils to one side are bent downwards, but the integral pin shaft that extends from these coils tapers down along its original alignment, and is complete. The integral bow of the brooch is flat in section. It tapers into a narrow leg that terminates in a blunt point. The bow is decorated along two thirds of its length with a broad, shallow groove. Beneath where the groove terminates are two transverse grooved lines. The rest of the leg is plain. The reverse of the brooch is plain. The solid catchplate survives intact with its curl. The original surface of the brooch survives with a light green patina, exposed surfaces are browny green. The brooch is 44.7mm long. It is 8.18mm wide across the unbent portion of spring (and was presumably double that when in correct alignment on both sides), 3.1mm wide across the bow, tapering to 1.06mm at the tip of the foot. The bow is 2.18mm thick and the brooch weighs 4.01g. Examples of this type of brooch can be seen in Hattatt, 1985, Iron Age and Roman Brooches, Oxbow Books: Oxford, figure 9. Number 243 is similar, though less decorative. They date from the early 1st century BC and continue into the 1st century AD.
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