Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Iron Age copper alloy bow brooch

La tene I bow brooch with pin missing. the spring has 4 coils, the bow is decorated with oblique cast ribs on either side of a central line. The foot of the catchplate is slightly flattened and expanded and turns back on itself to meet the bow.

LI1.4

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

2005.17H

Find Information

Site Name: Penllyn Moor, Cowbridge

Collection Method: metal detector

Notes: Found whilst metal-detecting in a boggy area at the headwaters of the River Thaw.

Acquisition

purchase, 3/5/2005

Measurements

weight / g:20.0
length / mm:70

Techniques

Cast

Material

Copper alloy

Location

location verified by SI

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