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Description: | A slightly corroded and damaged, incomplete wrought copper-alloy Iron Age/Roman La Tène III, Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the 1st century AD. Typical of this one-piece brooch type, the spring would have had four coils and the chord internal; only a pair of coils to one side and the chord survive (W.: 8.75mm). The solid, plain bow is rectangular with rounded corners in cross-section. It rises up vertically from the head, and curves through just under ninety degrees. From the mid point it travels down gradually, before descending far more steeply at the leg. The main bow is decorated with a pair of longitudinal incisions. There are groups of transverse incisions at the head and leg, far more at the latter. Part of the catch-plate survives, abraded, rounded and twisted through c. ninety degrees. This artefact has corroded to a variable mid-green colour with some pitting.
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