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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy trumpet brooch from the Roman period. The brooch has a head that is oval in plan attached to a bow with the remains of a catchplate on the reverse. The bow has a broadly right angled elbow when viewed in profile. There is a moulded acanthus leaf design on the bow (also known as petalling). The moulding consists of a narrow central ridge (which runs horizontally around the bow) with four ??petals?? which rise towards the ridge from above, and four corresponding ??petals?? which rise towards the ridge from below. In total there are two ??petals?? on the front of the brooch, two on the reverse, and two to either side. The detail on the front of the moulding is corroded and indistinct. Both above and below the acanthus leaf moulding, there is a narrow horizontal groove running around the bow.
The portion of the bow above the acanthus leaf moulding is broadly circular in section, expanding in thickness from the central waist towards both moulding and head. The portion of the bow below the moulding is broadly triangular in section, tapering towards the foot which is missing. On the broadly flat reverse of the lower portion of the bow there are the remains of the catchplate. The reverse of the head is flat with two stubs of a lug remaining. This would have held the spring and pin mechanism which are missing (e.g. see: ??Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection?? (Bayley and Butcher, 2004).
The brooch has an uneven matt brown surface, and where this is not present, the brooch is green and pitted. The breaks do not appear to be recent other than on the catchplate and one lug on the reverse of the head. The brooch is 42.0mm long, 13.8mm wide across the head, and 24mm from front to back. The brooch has a mass of 10.8g.
In ??Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection??, Bayley and Butcher state that trumpet headed brooches, ????are the most original products of the British brooch industry in the Roman period?? (2004, p160). The distinctive head is thought to derive from some pre-Roman Aylesford brooches (ibid.). In her ??Roman Brooch Timeline??, Worrell (2007) dates trumpet brooches to AD75-AD175. | Subjects: | Trumpet | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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