File:Late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch (FindID 1007459).jpg

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Late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Matthew Fittock, 2020-07-23 11:13:34
Title
Late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch dating to the period AD 25-60. Only the wings, part of the spring and upper bow survive. The lower bow, foot and pin are missing.

The wings are cylindrical in shape and composed of a folded sheet. The ends are open and there is some damage to the top of one side, including to where the ovate perforation dividing the wings would have been, revealing a circular-sectioned iron axis bar inside. This holds in place a double-coiled spring made of circular-sectioned copper-alloy wire.

The bow extends downwards from the front face of the wings. It is broadly trapezoidal in shape and D-shape in cross-section, terminating at an old transverse break.

The end of the one intact wing is decorated with a single vertical groove that extends around its circumference, while the bow has an arched groove where it meets the wings, and a single vertical groove that extends down its centre. The reverse of the bow is undecorated.

The brooch is 25mm long. The wings are 25mm long and 7.8mm maximum diameter. The bow is a maximum of 12.1 mm wide and 3.2mm thick. The brooch weighs 7.04 grams.

For a similar brooch see Hattatt 2000, p. 306, fig. 165, no. 772.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 25 and 60
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FindIdentifier: 1007459
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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/1110603
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1110603/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1007459
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location51° 52′ 32.88″ N, 0° 05′ 28.27″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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