brooch; bow brooch

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Object Type: brooch; bow brooch
Museum number: 1880,1214.13
Description: Copper alloy brooch. La Tène I / Early Iron Age form, the bow of the brooch is thick and rounded and is decorated on each side with incised ornament. The sides are decorated with dot and circle stamps between pairs of oblique incised lines. The top of the foot is flat and decorated with five dot and circile stamps.
Cultures/periods: Iron Age; La Tène I
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Islip
Materials
Type series: La Tène I; Hull & Hawkes 1A
Dimensions: Diameter: 8.10 millimetres (internal diameter of spring coils); Height: 17.20 millimetres (base of pin to top of bow); Length: 46.30 millimetres (from outer edge of chord to end of catchplate); Weight: 10.20 grammes; Width: 5.30 millimetres (width of bow); Width: 12.30 millimetres (width of spring)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1880,1214.13

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