- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 'Large bright bronze fibula of safety pin form, harp-shaped, with open-work catch'. [ZM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/12/2004]
- Geographical reference
- "Ireland": ie Ireland or Northern Ireland (UK)
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 122 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Depth: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.79.106 PR no.: 28-1665
- 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]
Further items to explore
1961.3.034.1Pair of rectangular shoe buckles [.1-.2] of yellow metal, set with small steel studs. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/6/2005]1961.3.034.1
1884.79.102Portion of green patina'd bronze T-shaped fibula with ornamental catch, 2 nodes on bar. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/2/2005]1884.79.102
1884.79.113Fragment of fibula with triple knobs. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2005]1884.79.113
1884.79.37Bronze fibula with short bow and semicircular terminal with 5 projections1884.79.37