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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMGW-7ACF21
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy bow brooch of La Tene III type, and of Nauheim derivative form of 1st century BC to 1st Century AD date. The brooch is incomplete, missing the foot and catch-plate and the spring has broken at the chord. The spring, typically for the type had an internal chord and would have had two coils either side of the head. The bow profile is flat and the spring erupts in a near straight line from the bow. The surviving upper bow is flat with angular shoulders and converging sides. The face is decorated with an incised side border and three horizontal incised lines. There is a central sub-rectangular panel containing slight horizontal raised lines. Beneath the three incised lines, the bow is plain, but has the suggestion of another incised horizontal above the break.
Class:
La Tene III
Sub class: Nauheim derivative
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.8 mm
Width: 8.3 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 2.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st October 2003
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA 2004.10.3
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Chichester (District)
Parish or ward: Bury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ0113
Four figure Latitude: 50.907645
Four figure longitude: -0.564863
1:25K map: TQ0113
1:10K map: TQ01SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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