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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Iron Age (400-200 BC) La Tène I type brooch which is missing its pin. It measures 51.9mm in length, 15.9mm in max. width (across the spring), 7.70mm wide (across the bow), 19.5mm deep (bow to catchplate) and weighs 16.27 grams.The head of the bow is formed of an integral spring, which is wrapped round a copper-alloy bar. The spring consists of four coils, one of which loops round the top of the brooch to form a D shaped loop, the central coil forms the copper-alloy pin which is missing.The neck expands from the integral coil and projects outwards at a ninety degree angle to form the thickening bow. The bow is broadly pointed oval in shape and D-shaped in cross-section. It widens to 7.70mm thick at the centre, before narrowing to 4.1mm as the lower bow extends offset. The bow is curved to the front and decorated with four vertical grooves running along its length, two located on the outer face of the bow, one on either side and two parallel grooves which are decorated with slight horizontal incisions running along the centre of the bow.The catchplate extends to one side of the lower bow as a curving and thickened edge with a deep groove for the pin. The foot turns upwards to the front where it is D-shaped in cross-section (being flat to the reverse) and terminating in a flat circular knop (6.7x5.95mm) with a collar of five grooves forming four ribs below. It stops just short of touching the base of the bow.The majority of the brooch has a mid green patina which is missing in places revealing the light-green copper-alloy underneath.
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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