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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy La Tene I type brooch of Iron Age date, c. 400 to 200 BC. The remains of the brooch consist of a 'leaf-shaped' body, with old breaks at the spring head and foot, resulting in the absence of spring, pin and portions of the brooch ends. The brooch has been purposefully curved, which originally created a D-shaped profile with the pin. The decorative style of the brooch is unusual; instead of being decorated with a series of incised lines concentrically following the perimeter shape of the brooch, this example has three incised lines creating two raised ridges running vertically down its centre, with similar treatment following the perimeter of the body. These incised and raised decorations in the centre and perimeter edges creates to raised plain sections on the outer surface of the brooch. Both cross-sections at the broken ends are sub-triangular, although one is thicker than the other, suggesting that the thicker end supported the spring. The brooch measures 47.8mm long, 20.9mm wide, 3.15mm thick and weighs 17.56 grams. Although the outer surface is mostly of an even dark green patina with some areas of a higher degree of corrosion, the underside is encrusted and in worse condition.Although an exact parallel has not been found for this style of 'leaf-shaped' La Tene I brooch, similar types are illustrated in Hattatt 2007, p. 288, fig. 147. Cf. also PAS database record: SUSS-708D77.
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