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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy La Tène III type or 'Nauheim' derivative Iron Age brooch. The head of the brooch is formed from the integral four coiled spring, with an external chord. The pin portion would also have been integral, extending from the coil, but this has broken away. The break edge is worn suggesting this occurred in antiquity. The bow of the brooch is triangular in plan and flat in section. It would have gently curved, but the brooch is now distorted and squashed from its original profile. The bow tapers into a blunt point. It is decorated with central double incised parallel vertical lines. The catch plate is solid and intact with its curl. The original surface of the brooch survives with a dark brown patina, with small patches of dark green corrosion. The brooch is 54.12mm long, 9.2mm wide across the spring, 10.92mm wide across the top of the bow, tapering to 3.52mm and weighs 5.15g Brooches of this type date from c. 100BC to c.AD 50. A similar example, though with an internal chord, can be seen in Hattatt, 1985, Iron Age and Roman brooches, figure 9, number 244.
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