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Description: | A La Tène III type, Nauheim-derivative brooch. Copper-alloy Iron Age to early Roman brooch AD 25-100. This brooch is incomplete; it is missing the pin. This brooch is a one-piece brooch with a sprung mechanism. The external chord extends around under the bow like most of the La Tène I and III examples seen in Hattatt. The spring mechanism has two remaining turns. The end turn extend to form the chord. The bow is slender and undecorated. The bow tapers to the end with the catchplate. There is no foot-knob on the end of the bow. The width measurement given below relates to the width across the sprung mechanism, as this is the widest point of the brooch. The length measurement relates to the entire length of the brooch. The brooch is dark brownish-green in colour.A similar example can be seen in Hattatt, 2000, pp290, Fig. 149.
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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