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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy La Téne I type brooch, dating from circa 4th - 3rd century BC. The spring and head have become detached. The spring is of eight loops, four to each side with an external (broken) chord; the spring is wrapped around a seperate copper alloy bar 19.2mm long. The bow is arched and tapers outwards from the head and then inwards from the swollen centre. The bow has a circular cross-section. The bow then continued into the foot. The foot is bent around on itself and has been looped up under the main bow. The catchplate can still be seen extending out from the side of the foot, at the rear of the object, but both the foot and the catchplate are badly damaged. The pin is missing. The metal is pitted and is a dark greenish-brown colour. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, p288, fig: 147 and Hattatt, 1985, p11, Fig: 3.
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