Tangendorf disc brooch
| Tangendorf disc brooch | |
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| Year | 3rd century AD |
| Type | Brooch |
| Medium | Fire gilded silver |
| Subject | Animal |
| Dimensions | 58 mm diameter (2.3 in) |
| Location | Archäologisches Museum Hamburg, Harburg, Hamburg |
| Owner | Archäologisches Museum Hamburg |
The Tangendorf disc brooch is an Iron Age fibula from the 3rd century AD, which was dug up in 1930 from the sand of a Bronze Age tumulus near Tangendorf, Toppenstedt, Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The front of the elaborately crafted garment fibula is decorated with a rear-facing four-legged animal, probably a dog or a deer. It is one of Harburg's most important finds from the period of the Roman Empire, and is in the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg in Harburg, Hamburg.
The Tangendorf disc brooch was found in 1930 in a tumulus (at 53°18′07″N 10°04′35″E / 53.30202°N 10.076256°ECoordinates: 53°18′07″N 10°04′35″E / 53.30202°N 10.076256°E) on a parcel of land known as Im schwarzen Dorn (in the black dorn), on the outer northwest corner of Tangendorf. While digging off sand from a Bronze Age grave mound in his field, farmer Heinrich Wille found the fibula together with a bronze hair clip (German: Haarknotenfibel) and a bronze spear blade. The hair clip and the spear blade were passed to the Helms-Museum; however, the brooch was left with a teacher of the Tangendorf elementary school.
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