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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Iron Age/La Tene III Nauheim derivative brooch. It is worn and missing half of the integrally cast spring, internal spring chord and pin due to old breaks. The bow is undecorated, D-shaped in section with flat back face and rounded front face. It tapers at the head to an integrally cast spring and chord, of which two coils survive although rotated at an angle of 90 degrees due to post-depositional damage, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The bow itself has been bent to an angle of greater than 90 degrees due to post-depositional damage. At its base the bow tapers to a pointed foot, on the back face of which is an integrally cast catchplate that is rectangular in form with folded outer edge. The entire brooch has a green patina that is pitted and shows signs of corrosive copper-alloy products in places. It measures 31.50mm in current length (bent), 4.97mm in width at bow, 1.72mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 2.04g.This is a late Iron Age/La Tene III Nauheim derivative brooch with parallels noted from Hacheston in Suffolk (Blagg et al., 2004: no. 5), from Baldock, Hertfordshire (Stead and Rigby, 1986: pp. 108-110, Figs. 40-41) and in Hattatt (1989: no. 12). These indicate a 1st century AD date for the current example, c.10-100 AD.
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