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Description: | Iron age or early Roman copper alloy Nauheim derivative one-piece type brooch. The head is formed of a coiled spring with two turns to each side of spring below the bow. The spring is formed of wire, probably circular sectioned. The pin runs from the back of the head and appears to be complete. The pin hass suffered some damage however and has been bent out of shape and the tip has been broken so that it is now at a c. 90 degree angle to the shaft. From the head the bow curves downwards before becomming straight to the foot. The catchplate on the back of the bow is triangular and solid, with a small lip that curves round 90 degrees to hold the pin. The brooch measures approximately 42mm long, 20mm wide and 4mm thick at the bow.Brooches of this type are most common along the south coast in Britain between Kent and Dorset. Hattatt (2000) page 290 illustrates numberous similar examples, in particular No.739 and 239.
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