brooch
- Museum number
- ML.2233
- Description
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Copper alloy drum brooch fragment. Drum only, not dished.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 16 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Probably not from a P4 brooch.
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).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2233