Technical Observations: The patina is mottled green with reddish-brown areas. The surface is pitted by corrosion. The pin is cracked, bent, and broken at the tip, and it has corroded through in the section bent around the body. Filing during cleaning has exposed shiny metal on the inner edges of one of the loop terminals.
The fibula is formed from two pieces of metal, which were both wrought into rectangular sectioned rods that were bent into shape. The loop terminals of the body were hammered flat and curled, perhaps around a thin rod, to give them their scrolled shape. The flattened end of the pin was also fashioned by hammering.
Francesca G. Bewer (submitted 2002)
