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Description: | An almost complete Late Iron Age (c.75-10 BC) copper alloy La Tène III brooch of a rare continental form, first defined by Feugère (1985, Type 11a). It is slightly squashed with some damage to the catchplate but otherwise complete. A parallel on this database is BERK-5D9043, also from Wiltshire, and from which much of this record has been taken. Measures 46.80x11.40mm and weighs 5.7g.The brooch has a domed sub-oval head 11.40mm wide, hollow to the reverse, with a projection above which extends into one of four coils. The chord passes underneath this projection. The pin extends from the final coil and measures 2.1mm in diameter, bending slightly and narrowing to a point. The head is decorated with a pair of vertical incised lines 1mm apart at the centre.Below the head is a narrowed waist 6.92mm wide, beneath which is an inverted-triangular body 10.42mm wide at the shoulders and narrowing to 0.69mm at the foot. The body appears to have at least two pairs of transverse incised lines dividing it in to thirds. However much of the original patina is now lost.The catchplate is bent upwards to the side of the bow, not apparently intentionally.Anni Byard, Berkshire FLO, comments in the record referred to above: Similar examples are recorded in Mackreth (2010) Plate 13 (no's 3900 and 14467). One (unillustrated) example was recovered from a context dating c.50-10 BC, and another (no. 3900) from Dorchester (Dorset) was recovered from a Late Iron Age / early Roman context, but Mackreth notes that this style of brooch was falling from favour by the end of the first century BC (Mackreth 2010:25).The brooch is also broadly similar to one in Hattatt (1989, p 22-24, No. 1454) and NMGW-FC5697, again both Wiltshire finds.
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