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Description: | Heavily distorted Iron Age brooch; probably a boss-on-bow, Knotenfibula, type of La Tene D2 period, 80-30 BC. There is a circular sectioned projection at the head with old break at end where it would have connected to the spring. Below this it curves out into shoulders, the widest point of the bow at 10.4mm. The bow is flat and tapers evenly from the shoulders to the knop/boss with a central incised groove down the front. The knop has a pair of narrow collars, then a waist then a broad collar with cross hached incised lines between two narrow collars, then a waist then a further pair of narrow collars. It is circular in section and 5.2mm in diameter. The lower part of the bow and foot are bent over and distorted. There is the start of a distorted triangular catchplate before the broken foot. It is mid-brown-green in colour and very pitted. It is now 55.5mm long. It weighs 5.19 grams.This brooch belongs to a type known as a Knotenfibula because of the 'knot' or boss on the bow. It would also be described as a Feugere type 8a or an Almgren type 65 in the most common typologies used for describing Late Iron Age brooches. These types of brooches are known from archaeological sites across southern Britain, France, western Germany and the Low Countries.
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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