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Description: | A cast copper alloy Iron Age brooch. The brooch is of unusual form; it has a domed sub-lozenge shaped body, hollow on the underside, with four solid, domed knops at the upper and lower corners of the body. On the reverse is an integrally cast hooked catchplate and pin hinge; the pin is missing but iron staining around the hinge suggests an iron pin.No direct comparison for this brooch can be found in the usual literature; the brooch does share some similarities to Middle Iron Age brooches illustrated in Hattatt (2000: 287 no's 721,1444 and 1441), and two brooches with similar attributes are recorded on this database (see WAW-DD1642 and BERK-4EFFC6). Should this brooch be a derivative of those depicted in Hattatt, then this brooch could date from the 6th to 3rd centuries BC.
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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