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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy mount, stud or pin of Middle to Late Iron Age date. The large globular mount is copper alloy and has three sub-rectangluar recessed cells around its girth and a rounded cell on its apex and underside. These cells are filled with a white coral (one cell is now missing its fill). Around each of these cells is simple incised decoration of a diagonal line which starts at the base of one cell are loops up and round the adjacent cell. This pattern is repeated around the girth of the mount while the cells at the top and bottom have a single incised line around them. The bottom of the mount has the remains of the iron shank, which is now corroded and no length of the shank survives.Coral is found as decorative inserts on brooches dating from the Middle to Late Iron Age, although it is more common in brooches of the earlier period, c. 600-300 BC. However it is unclear whether this is indeed a pin head or another decorative object, such as a stud (Peter Reavill pers. comm.) or part of another object such as a brooch. Record LANCUM-E7297 is similar. DOR-B37E55 is another example of a similar object, which the recorded suggests may have been a head of a dress pin or perhaps a domed knop atttached to the foot of a La Tène I brooch. The iron shank on the example recorded herein suggests a Late Iron Age date however the coral and decoration a slightly earlier one. Comparisons are being sought. Suggested date; c. 400 BC - AD 43.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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