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Description: | Romano-British enamelled trumpet brooch, complete apart from most of catchplate flap (recent damage). Six-coiled spring and axis bar / chain loop held by lug which is integral to head and rises to an upstanding tab. A collar is folded around the waist of the chain-loop and the tab. The centrally divided bow is decorated with four triangular cells filled with yellow enamel, in two base-to-base pairs, and with two addorsed blue-filled C-shaped blue-filled cells. A flat-backed acanthus moulding at the base of the bow is flanked above and below by triple transverse rib mouldings. The foot ends in a standard round pad terminal and is decorated on both sides of the central arris with triangular enamel-filled fields, the colour of the enamel uncertain. Length including chain-loop 65mm. Head width 15mm. Late 1st ?? 2nd century. | Subjects: | trumpet | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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