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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Iron Age La Tène I type brooch, missing most of the pin, the chord and the foot end.The spring width is 17.4mm and consists of four coils around the axis bar. One of the coils is broken, but complete. Another extends into the pin and extends 5mm before the break.The broken coil extends from the bow, which is 6.8mm wide before it narrows into the coil.The bow is arched and roughly D-shaped in section, although the underside is not truly flat and curves slightly outwards. It is max.8.8mm wide and 6.1mm thick at the centre of the bow. This narrows to 5mm wide, 4.4mm thick at the top of the foot. This then narrows over 16.7mm to the break, where is measures 4.3mm wide (including the catchplate curl to the side) and 2.3mm thick.The catchplate, which extends at 90° to one side of the foot, is mostly complete.The metal is badly pitted but shows some decoration on the bow, in the form of a groove flanking each long outside edge, and a double groove along the centre, possibly with some decoration between the double groove.The brooch is 51.3mm in length and weighs 16.82g.It is of Hull's 'Wessex' type, type 1B, which tends to be concentrated in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset.3rd-4th century BC.
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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