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Are these weghts?

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nikopolis1:
Weights or some belt clothes stuff?Dont have scale sensitive enough to give corect weight but the should around  1 gram each ...may be

mauseus:
Hi,

No, they are brooches. There should be a bobble terminal opposite to the one that remains on them. They are called equal ended plate brooches from C. 2nd century AD.

Regards,

Mauseus

nikopolis1:
Aaaa I see now where they have been broken.Thanks for the comment +++

SC:
Close.  They are actually Celtic late La Tene (LT III or LT D) period brooches.  They originate in the eastern Alps region - E Austria, W Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia. 

They were attached to a very thin, long looped pin part that actually looks a lot like a modern safety pin.  The pin rarely survives today.

See images of some of mine.

SC

nikopolis1:
Very nice brooches ,shame mine came out broken,as usual the most interesting items always coming damaged >:(Thanks for the information

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