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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age - early Roman brooch of La Tene III, Nauheim derivative type. The brooch is bent at the upper third and bent severely at the lower catchplate. The brooch is missing its spring and pin, along with a possible small portion of its catchplate. The remains of the brooch consist of a flat-sectioned triangular brooch bow, which tapers to a simple point foot; the catchplate is a simple thin section of metal running at right angles to the bow. The brooch is simply decorated with an incised line running immediately inside both long perimeter edges of the brooch bow. It measures 36.4 mm long (currently post-damage), 9.3 mm maximum width (brooch bow), 1.4 mm thick (overall brooch bow) and weighs 1.7 grams.According to recent work conducted by specialist Sophie Adams, these types seem to date to the second half of the first century AD. In her training manual on Iron Age brooch types, she illustrates a close parallel coming from Chichester, West Sussex (Adams, Iron Age Brooch Identification Guide, pp 20-21). For similar types, cf. Hattatt 2007, p. 290, Fig. 149.
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