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Description: | Roman enamelled cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, 1st-2nd century. The spring and pin are missing - the spring would have been held by the single lug on the reverse of the head; the lug is now broken. Trumpet-shaped head, decorated with two horseshoe-shaped enamel cells placed together to form a circle; the left cell contains blue enamel, the right cream coloured enamel (possibly not the original colour). Two small triangular cells just below these, placed together to form a lozenge; the left cell contains a speck of blue enamel, the right cell contains cream-coloured enamel. The central moulding is flat on the reverse. Incomplete, most of the lower part of the bow is missing. Dark green-brown patina where the original surface survives; exposed surface patchy light-mid green-brown. Length 32.31mm, width of head 12.34mm, width of central moulding 9.81mm, thickenss 16.9mm, weight 7.79g. | Subjects: | trumpet | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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