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Description: | A copper alloy late-Iron Age (c.100 BC-AD c.50) La Tène III brooch. Overall, the brooch measures 51.7mm long, 8.4mm wide and 19.5mm thick. It weighs 3.63g. The brooch is almost completely intact, only missing tiny fragments from its foot. The whole brooch is one piece. The pin is cylindrical (1.9mm in diameter) with a pointed terminal. The spring is a continuation of the pin and coils four times. The bow is a continuation of the spring. It expands in width (3.8mm) and is D-shaped in section (1.6mm thick). It bends forwards from the spring, then curves downwards and straightens. After the curve it tapers in width to a point at the terminal of the foot. The catchplate projects from the reverse of the foot. It is sub-triangular in profile and has an elaborate perforation. Ignoring the pin (which is open) the brooch measures c.13mm thick. There is a small patch of grooved cross-hatched decoration on the centre of the front of the bow.cf. Hattatt, 1989, p.290, Fig.149, no.8.
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