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BROOCH
Unique ID: OXON-C88E7E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy bow brooch dating to the Middle Iron Age, c. 400-200 BC. The pin and two coils of the four coil spring is missing due to an old break. The brooch has a flat sectioned bow with prominent outward curve at the head of the bow and prominent inward curve towards the foot. Down the centre of the brooch is a raised rib. The foot is reverted to abut the base of the bow and terminates in an oval knop; the catchplate is formed by a widening of the return of the foot. See Hattatt (2000; 2007; fig. 147, no. 725) for a similar example. Also BERK-FE4291 and GLO-6EFDAC on this database. Class: La Tène I.
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Class: La Tène I
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Exactly 400 BC
Date to: Circa 200 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37 mm
Width: 0.8 mm
Weight: 3.7 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OXPAS2019.138
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
To be known as: Lewknor
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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