SOMDOR505: Iron Age La Tene I Bow Brooch

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BROOCH

Unique ID: SOMDOR505

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Bow from a La Tene I brooch. Thick bow with dorsal groove. Bow tapers at one end where coil for pin would have started.

Notes:

PAL 330

Class: Bow
Sub class: La Tene I

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa AD 300
Date to: Circa AD 200

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 29.26 mm
Width: 5.08 mm
Thickness: 3.52 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1999

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Wrought
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: KINGSDON

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	1982	Ancient and Romano-British brooches	Sherborne	Dorset Publishing	54-55	4

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Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 23 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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