Summary

Iron Age brooch from Luce Sands, Wigtownshire

Accession Number

X.2008.49

Other references

Original description

[One of three] Iron Age brooches from Luce Sands, Wigtownshire. X.2008.49 = X.BHF 2 Fragment of a La Tène II short involuted brooch, the first known from Scotland (Fig. 5c). Surviving fragment comprises a three-coil mock spring, the outer coils cast in one with the curving D-sectioned pin, the central one leading to the deeply curved sub-rectangular sectioned body. The axis is a solid copper alloy cylinder. Dimensions: spring W 7.5 mm; surviving L 14 mm, H 12 mm. Second century BC. Found in Glenluce Sands Collections by FJH and allocated new number

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Luce Sands, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

2008-08-09

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

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Image

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