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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy Iron Age/Roman La Tène III, Nauheim derivative brooch dating from the 1st Century BC to 1st Century AD. The fragment consists of the upper half of the bow, thin and slightly convex, which narrows at the top into a strip which curls around to form the head and hold the iron spring in place, only a fused fragment of which remains. The break across the bottom of the bow is old and worn. The upper surface of the bow is decorated with two vertical double strips of punch marks while the reverse is undecorated. The fragment is 26.22mm long, 10.22mm wide, 6.25mm thick and weighs 1.68g.An incomplete La Tène brooch with very similar decoration is illustrated in Hattatt (2000), p. 290, fig. 149, no. 739. He dates these types to the 1st Century BC/AD.
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