brooch
- Museum number
- 1944,0702.5
- Description
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Copper alloy boat-shaped brooch.Two-piece construction. One piece forms the hollow, high-arched bow (boat-shaped when turned upside down) and the, now missing, catch-plate which was probably once long. The other piece is attached to the bow at the head end with a concealed copper alloy rivet. This piece forms the unilateral two-coil spring and the pin. The pin extends beyond the foot end of the bow implying a long-catchplate was part of the original form. The bow is decorated with two, barely visible, small lateral knobs, one on either side towards the middle of the arch and deeply incised lines: transverse parallel grooves at sides, longitudinal parallel grooves on sides of central zone; traces of incised decoration on central longitudinal and transverse bands. Covered with incrustations in various tones of green.
- Dimensions
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Length: 92.15 millimetres
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Weight: 58.20 grammes
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Width: 32.07 millimetres (bow width)
- Curator's comments
- Sestieri & MacNamara 2007
See Prehistorische Bronzefunde XIV, forthcoming, XXVII.1 (210a) A, no. 3832 from Marsiconuovo (Potenza), Basilicata (quite similar, with small lateral protrusions).
Possibly a south Italian type.
Bibliography: Hull and Hawkes 1987, 26, no. 7287, pl. 7. See no. 7260 for comment on the
provenance of this fibula.
See G&R 1814,0704.800
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1944,0702.5