brooch
- Museum number
- ML.2589
- Description
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Iron brooch with a decorated foot and an ?eight-coil spring.
- Dimensions
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Length: 50 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).
4. Form F4, with hollow 'drum' foot, multi-coiled spring and internal chord (Fig. 1, type G). Hallstatt D3 at the Heuneburg (Mansfield, G., 1973, ‘Die Fibeln der Heunburg 1950-1970’ (Römisch-Germanisch Forschungen, 33), Berlin); cf. Les Jogasses graves 77 and 162, ? Charvais grave 20, Mont Trote graves ll8 and 152 (iron), and Villeneuve-Renneville grave 30.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2589