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Description: | An almost complete, and now in two pieces, copper alloy Iron Age (400-200 BC) La Tène I type brooch, the pin and one coil now separated from the rest of the brooch. The tip of the pin is missing and part of the curl of the catchplate. It measures 39.06mm in length, 12.15mm in max. width and weighs 8.30g.Between the three surviving coils is a cylindrical bar, 4.6mm in diameter at either end and 3.8mm diameter at the centre. The coils measure c.2.5mm in diameter. Extending from the central surviving coil is the bow, which is D-shaped in cross-section (max.5.47x2.96mm, at the centre) and extends forwards in a rather angular curve (possibly a little squashed). It is plain and undecorated. The pin is now bent.The foot of the brooch extends below, 4.99mm wide with the surviving catchplate curl extending to one side. The foot narrows to the base (D-shaped in cross-section and 2.90x1.97mm) and turns upwards, terminating in a 5.86mm diameter flat knob, 4.35mm thick.Cf. two similar but decorated brooches, with the same style of foot-knob, HAMP-63AB61 and WILT-8AA693 (with thanks to the finder for bringing these to the attention of the recorder).NB. Pin wrongly aligned in image
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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