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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch, probably of Continental origin and Iron Age to early Roman date. The remains of the brooch consist of a rounded sub-oval head with integrally cast internal chord which passes underneath the bilateral four-coil spring, one of which forms the pin, which is now missing. From the simple sub-oval head, the body tapers to a simple flat foot and there is an even raised perimeter edge along both sides of the brooch body. The reverse retains traces of an extremely elongated catchplate, running the vertical length of the pin, beginning just below the spring coils and terminating at the flat brooch-end. The brooch is composed of copper alloy but has been heavily tinned or silver on all remaining surfaces.No parallel has been identified for this brooch type, but it bears similarities with some La Tene III Nauheim Derivative types dating from the late Iron Age to early Roman periods, c. AD 25-100. However, if this type is indeed Continental in origin as suggested here, this brooch may date to an earlier period in the Iron Age.
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