- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fibula of bronze wire and catch with flat plate (broken), with cross split tube, upper catch.
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 950 BC Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 65 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.79.128 PR no.: 50/ 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]
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