- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small bronze bow-fibula (?Certosa type) passing through base of pin.
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Iron Age
- Date collected
- ?By 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 44 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.79.80 PR no.: 412/ 12191
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - RDF contains notes found in a drawer with museum specimens in January 1991. They seem to be notes made by ES Thomas when cataloguing this section of the Pitt Rivers Collection. [The notes cover all objects in the 1884.79. section] [LM]
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