- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze fibula
- Long description
- Amulet, bronze brooch known as a 'fibula'. The body of the brooch is bow-shaped with slit in the middle and connects to a straight hinged pin. The bow-shaped body is flat and narrows at one end. The narrows end is when the pin closes, and the hinge is at the wider end. The pin does no longer open, and the hinge appears to be seized. [RB 17/07/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1895 Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- 1895
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 55 x 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2248 Other numbers: 4509
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