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BROOCH
Unique ID: HAMP458
Object type certainty: Certain
Large, high shouldered brooch with perforated triangular catchplate. Long, tapering flat bow, rectangular in section, quite sharply angled under head. Short, undecorated wings, protecting an eight-coil spring. Narrow external hook. Elaborate catchplate with five perforations, now broken. End of pin missing. Excellent condition, slightly uneven patina.
Notes:
Examples of this form of brooch were most frequently produced in iron and occasionally in silver. Brooches of this form from excavations are generally associated with late 1st century BC cremation burials in south-east England and adjacent parts of Continental Europe. They most frequently occur in pairs, sometimes chained. Several examples were found in the Iron Age cemetery at King Harry Lane, Verulamium (Stead and Rigby 1989, 89 Type B fig. 48). Similar brooches have been noted at Deal, Kent (Bushe-Fox 1925, plate CIII no. 8) and Colchester (Hawkes & Hull 1947, 308-10 nos. 6-33 plate LXXXIX-XCI).
Class: La Tene III
Sub class: Simple Gallic Type
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 50 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Length: 94 mm
Width: 23 mm
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: South East And London
County: Hampshire
District: Test Valley
To be known as: HAMPSHIRE BARTON STACEY
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st July 2000
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Created:
Tuesday 7th November 2000
Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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