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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy rare contienetal La Téne III period brooch, first defined by Feugère (1985, Type 11a) and dating from the late Iron Age c. 75-10 BC. The brooch has a domed sub-oval head with a circular body beneath, above a narrowed bow which contains the catchplate, part of which survives. The reverse retains part of the spring coil and pin. The main body of the brooch is decorated with punched dots, with three dotted lines running from beneath the head down the centre to the middle of the body, where the decoration extends right and left in a wide triangular design, again of punched dots. The design on the head of the brooch is too worn to discern. The brooch measures 68.74mm long and is 1.02mm thick. The head piece is 21.88mm wide while the maximum width of the body is 20.77mm. It weighs 6.53gms. Similar examples are recorded in Mackreth (2010) Plate 13 (no's 3900 and 14467). One (unillustrated) example was recovered from a context dating c.50-10 BC, and another (no. 3900) from Dorchester (Dorset) was recovered from a Late Iron Age / early Roman context, but Mackreth notes that this style of brooch was falling from favour by the end of the first century BC (Mackreth 2010:25).
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