brooch;
bow brooch
- Museum number
- 1989,0601.188
- Description
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Copper alloy La Tène brooch fragment. Pin, two coils and external chord of a bilateral four coil La Tène I (?) bow brooch. Mid to dark slightly brownish green patina.
- Dimensions
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Length: 40.54 millimetres
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Weight: 2.40 grammes
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Thickness: 2.20 millimetres
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Width: 17.70 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Part of a large hoard of copper-alloy artefacts dating from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Discovered by a metal detectorist, possibly at Batheaston, and dispersed for sale. It is thought that all of the artefacts are from a single, hoard dating to the Iron Age period.
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Conventionally known as the Batheaston hoard, research by Ian Stead suggests that the findspot for this material is in South Wiltshire, probably in the vicinity of Wyelye, although other locations have also been suggested. (See I. M. Stead, 1998, The Salisbury Hoard, pp.121-22).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 220 in Sotheby's sale of Monday May 22nd 1989.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1989,0601.188