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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy La Tène1 brooch of late Iron Age date (400 BC - 200 BC).About half of the spring, the pin and the foot are missing and the breaks are old.The bow is strongly arched in side view and projects out from the spring at an angle of about 15° from the horizontal plane. The surviving part of the spring, at one side, consists of two turns. Within the coils of the spring is a copper alloy axis bar, 10.5mm in length. It is square in cross-section measuring 2.4mm x 2.4mm. The bow has a length of 28.7mm. At a point about mid-way along its length, it has a maximum width of 6.8mm and a maximum thickness of 4.6mm. It is sub-square in cross-section with each corner being rounded and each face slightly convex, except the rear face which is flat. On the rear face are several indents that appear to be hammered marks.All elements of this brooch are severely pitted in places due to corrosion. Where the surfaces are not pitted there is a shiny dark green patina.35.2 x 11.5mm x 4.6. Weight: 6.01g.Similar La Tène1 brooches with axis bars have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, See examples from Micheldever Parish, Hampshire (SOMDOR-4D3957) and Angmering Parish, West Sussex (SUSS-DF8440).Hattatt (1982, 54, fig. 14, ref: 4) records a similar brooch.
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