brooch
- Museum number
- ML.2230
- Description
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Copper alloy drum brooch dominated by domed foot, dished on top. Only two coils of the spring survive.
- Production date
- 600 BC - 450 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.60 millimetres
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Length: 19.80 millimetres
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Weight: 1 grammes (approx)
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Width: 14.40 millimetres (bow)
- Curator's comments
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Stead and Rigby 1999
Context: Hallstatt D2 and D3 brooches
Drum Brooch: (‘Paukenflbel’: Mansfield, G., 1973, ‘Die Fibeln der Heunburg 1950-1970’ (Römisch-Germanisch Forschungen, 33), Berlin, 23-30, form P) All the Morel Collection examples belong to form P4, dominated by the domed foot (usually dished on top) that covers the bow. Two-piece construction. There is one from Ecury-sur-Coole, grave 111, another from Poix grave 1, and three in the de Baye collection from Bussy-le-Chateau, Bergeres-les-Vertus and St-Jean-sur-Tourbe (Thénot, A, 1982, ‘La civilisation celtique dans l’est de la France, d’après la collection de Baye’, Paris, pl. 34, nos 1, 3 and 7).
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Hallstatt D brooches were small and light. They often had drum-like ornaments on the bow. The spring mechanisms on these brooches were prone to failure.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc10)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2230