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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Iron Age (400-200 BC) La Tène I type brooch, missing its spring-coils and the pin. The catchplate has a little damage. It measures 34.03mm in length, 7.78mm in max. width (across the bow) and weighs 3.22g.The neck, which extends from the bow, measures between 1 and 2mm in diameter in cross-section. The bow is [-shaped in profile, and flat but slightly rounded to the front. In shape the central section of the bow is oval, the projecting sections triangular and narrowing. Much of the original patina is missing, but the centre of the bow is apparently decorated with a pair of vertical grooves.The foot of the brooch extends below the bow, 4.38mm wide to the reverse, the catchplate extending to one side as a thickened edge with deep groove for the pin. The foot turns upwards to the front where it is D-shaped in cross-section, expanding at the centre to a thick flat knob 4.80mm wide above two transverse grooves. From the other end is a trumpet-like projection (2.91mm at narrowest, expanding to 3.19mm) decorated with a single transverse groove at the edge, which stops just short of touching the bow.
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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