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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy La Tene I Iron Age brooch. Probably La Tene Class IBc, dating to between 400-275 BC. The remains of the brooch consist of one half of a spring coil connected at its base to a leaf-shaped brooch body, terminating in a foot knop; the foot knop has a small triangular catchplate at its base connected to the brooch body, followed by an upward-curving copper-alloy strip, ending in a small discoidal knop. It is possible that this was extended with a 'snout' or bifid protrosion, now missing. There are four incised lines forming concetric pointed ovals, following the shape of the brooch body. There are four transverse incised lines positioned directly below the foot knop. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated and the brooch body is flat in cross-section and curved convex in profile. The brooch has an even deep green patina. It measures 41.7 mm long, 9.5 mm maximum width, 2 mm thick at brooch body and weighs 3.8 grams. Cf. Hattatt 2007, Fig. 147, no. 1447; also Portable Antiquities Scheme Iron Age Brooch Guide (draft, 2012), p. 7, no. 2923.
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