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Description: | An incomplete, cast copper alloy, Iron Age brooch, dating from 600-400BC. It has a strongly arched hollow bow; the sides of which are flat and the upper portion of which consists of two angled, flat facets that meet in a slight ridge at the top. At one end of the bow, and set at right angles to it, is a small, rectangular catch plate with a shallow, U shaped groove to take the pin. Above the catch plate, a short way up the bow, is a projection consisting of a single flat disc decorated with three concentric recessed rings. This disc probably originally joined to the base of the catchplate. The other end of the bow, the pin mount and the pin have broken away in antiquity and are missing. The brooch has a dark brown patina. It is 29.1mm long, 12.2mm wide and 22.3mm thick. It weighs 8.66gm.Compare to SUSS-9A8068 and BERK-717093. These finds and the finder suggest that this brooch is a Hull and Hawkes type L variant. Hawkes and Hull call this type of brooch 'one of the British adaptations of Late Hallstatt Continental forms' and classify them as "British Late Hallstatt brooches with innovating features".A similar brooch is illustrated in Hattat, 2000, Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figure 146, number 1440.
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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