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Description: | A copper alloy mount or knop, possibly part of a brooch dating from the Middle or Later Iron Age, that is 600BC-AD43. The object is composed or a moulded copper alloy casing with a circular coral inlay, The casing is dome-shaped with moulded ribs on the outside. There may have possibly been some inside hatching on some of the ribs/bands. The coral, now of light pink/skin colour, is much degraded. It looks as if it was a single piece into which a circular hole was drilled. It was then attached to a short lug on the inside of the casing. At the back of the lower section is a central shallow angular recess and some iron staining indicating attachment of this object to another.This object may have been a head of a dress pin or perhaps a domed knop atttached to the foot of a La Tène I brooch. A similar artefact (with slightly more intricate decoration) was recorded under DOR-B37E55.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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