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Description: | Romano-British copper alloy hinged trumpet brooch with an integrally cast fixed chain-loop and dummy. The bow is embellished with an acanthus moulding which does not extend around the back of the bow. Moulded transverse knurled ribs are set above and below the acanthus. The bow is also decorated with a narrow longitudinal knurled rib which extends from the dummy clip to the moulded rib above the acanthus and then from the moulded rib below the acanthus to the foot knob. The foot knob consists of two separate knurled mouldings.The head is decorated by a knurled border and the dummy clip is also embellished with a knurled moulding. The knurled decoration apparently imitates the form of stitching. The brooch did not contain any enamel decoration. The lower part of the bow is straight while the upper part curves and widens into the typical trumpet-shaped head. The rear of the head is recessed; two transverse cylindrical mouldings held the axis bar and a longitudinal notch accommodated the movement of the hinge. The upper part of the bow is slightly distorted. The original hinged pin and axis bar are missing and have been neatly replaced by the finder with modern white metal versions. Part of the catchplate is damaged. Length 80mm, width of head 19mm. An example of a hinged Trumpet brooch, the acanthus moulding is plain behind placing the brooch within Collingwood's sub-group R(iv) cf. Collingwood 1930, 253. Reported by Mr Brian Davies on behalf of the finder.The brooch was recovered several years ago in an area to the north-west of Cowbridge. The finder has identified two possible findspots (NGR SS97607565) and (NGR SS96987596) and the find was certainly recovered from somewhere within the two square kilometres defined by NGR SS9675 and NGR SS9775. Trumpet brooches are a common type and are found throughout Roman Britain on both military and civilian sites. The brooch type has a date range from the mid first century AD to the late second century AD and although closer dating on typological criteria has been suggested its validity is not certain (Hattatt 1987, 128; Mackreth 1997, 136). Two antecedents for the type have been suggested: the Pannonian "Kraftig Profilierte" type and the pre-Roman Aylesford type (Hattatt 1982, 104; Hattatt 1987, 126-128). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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