File:Late Iron Age- Early Roman Knickfibel brooch (FindID 507802).jpg

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Late Iron Age/ Early Roman Knickfibel brooch
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2012-06-14 15:56:35
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Late Iron Age/ Early Roman Knickfibel brooch
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English: An incomplete Late Iron Age/ Early Roman (AD 1-50) Knickfibel brooch, a continental type using the Colchester spring gear and with little wings (Hattatt, 1987; Brooches of Antiquity, p.30, ref.754). It is missing the pin and half the coils (about 4), and the curl of the catchplate. The brooch measures 59.38mm in length and weighs 7.92g.

The wings span 15.66mm and are plain and undecorated. They are flat to the reverse (visible where half the coils are missing) but also thickened and angled slightly when viewed underneath. The surviving coil extends slightly outside the edge of its wing. The chord has been bent around, where the missing coils would have been. The remaining coils (four) carry traces of iron staining, and further iron staining is apparent inside them.

The bow projects forward, lozenge-shaped in cross-section (4.12x3.43mm), at c.90 degrees. Although worn, decoration in the form of a central mid-rib with tiny transverse grooves is apparent. At its sharply-angled bend is a circular moulding (7.19x7.09mm) with slimmer moulded rib below. The lower bow is plain, pointed-oval in cross-section (5.152.48mm) and narrows slightly to the rounded end, 3.75mm wide. To the reverse the catchplate extends from the centre of the lower bow and is c.25mm long and max.8.28mm deep.

Hattatt comments this type is mainly centred on the Rhineland and was of comparatively short life, covering the first half of the first century AD. Bayley and Butcher further comment (2004, Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and typological study based on the Richborough collection, p 148) that this type of brooch is likely to have come with the army since they are common on the forts of the Rhine-Danube frontier.

Cf. Hattatt no.754. Other Knickfibel brooches on this database are <a href="/database/artefacts/record/id/12135">NLM4673</a>, <a href="/database/artefacts/record/id/175217">NMS-11E8C1</a>, <a href="/database/artefacts/record/id/210762">LIN-3EB844</a> and <a href="/database/artefacts/record/id/261602">NMS-B7F193</a>.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 1 and 50
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FindID: 507802
Old ref: WILT-9FB4C6
Filename: WILT-9FB4C6.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/385387
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/385387/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/507802
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