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BROOCH
Unique ID: GLO-6EFDAC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An Iron Age copper alloy La Tene I brooch, dating to c 400-200 BC. The brooch is nearly complete, although the pin and some of the spring are missing.
The brooch has a deeply C-shaped bow which is thicker towards the middle where it forms a broad flat panel that has two vertical groves running down its length. The narrowed head of the brooch is curved round several times to form the spring and pin: the pin is missing and only two curls of the spring remain. The foot of the brooch is also narrowed and bent upwards to curve back on itself; the terminal is decorated with a collar/bead/constriction moulding. The catchplate projecting from the right side of the foot is complete.
Cf Hattatt, R, 2007, A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxbow Books, Oxford p 288
Class: La Tene I
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Exactly 400 BC
Date to: Circa 200 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51 mm
Width: 7 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight: 6.26 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2015 - Sunday 1st March 2015
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Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Madley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO4040
Four figure Latitude: 52.05512
Four figure longitude: -2.87646184
1:25K map: SO4040
1:10K map: SO44SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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