Summary

Iron Age brooch from Luce Sands, Wigtownshire

Accession Number

X.2008.50

Other references

Original description

[One of three] Iron Age brooches from Luce Sands, Wigtownshire. X.2008.50 = X.BHF 3 Copper alloy Iron Age bow brooch of La Tène III ‘Glastonbury’ type, imported from SW England. L 45 mm. Oval-sectioned low-arched bow, open catchplate; 8-coil mock-spring. Bibliography: PSAS 66 (1931-2), 376, fig 57.2; Hull & Hawkes 1987 ‘Pre-Roman bow brooches’, 196, no 4293; R Hattatt 1985 ‘Iron Age and Roman Brooches’, 14-15

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

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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