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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Late Halstatt brooch dating to the Middle Iron Age, c. 450-300 BC. Hawkes and Hull Halstatt D Group L. The brooch has a rounded hollow bow at one end of which is a sub-rectangular rounded extension which contains a pair of small round apertures to hold the iron spring and pin; although both are missing, a small fragment of the bar running through this aperture remains and is composed of iron. A series of four or five short horizontal grooves decorates the base of this projection. The opposite end comprises the sub-triangular catchplate which turns back on itself and ends in a circular terminal attached to the bow. To the right of the circular terminal, there is a triangular groove which would have held the pin-end. The brooch is of an even dark green patina, save for the iron staining and component mentioned above; no staining is found near the catchplate. The brooch measures 39.5 mm long; 5.4 mm wide (upper projection); 10.9 mm wide (middle); 8.9 mm wide (catchplate); 11.2 mm maximum thickness (at terminal); it weighs 12.5 grams.For a nearly identical example on the PAS database cf.: SUR-604411.
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