brooch
- Museum number
- ML.2220
- Description
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Copper alloy brooch. Bow, broken at the catch-plate and at the start of the spring. Separate fragment (unregistered) may join: eight-coil spring on an iron bar with large domed washers at either end, and a pin.
- Dimensions
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Length: 36 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Context: Hallstatt D2 and D3 brooches:
Brooch with decorated foot: (‘Fusszierfibel’: Mansfield, G., 1973, ‘Die Fibeln der Heunburg 1950-1970’ (Römisch-Germanisch Forschungen, 33), Berlin, 37-43, form F).
5. Form F, fragment; two-piece construction.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2220