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Description: | The brooch is a Colchester Two-Piece brooch, a Trumpet type. It has been made from cast copper alloy. Trumpet type brooches date to the mid first to second century. Hattatt illustrates a similar brooch in Brooches of Antiquity, No. 959. The bow head and wings are incorporated together. In plan the bow head is a horizontal oval. On the reverse there is a sub oval shaped hollow. Either side of this void there is an incomplete semi-circular lug with a circular hole in the centre. One hole is filled with the remains of an iron axis bar. Otherwise the spring, axis bar and pin are all missing. Protruding from the upper edge of the bow head there is an irregular protrusion whose upper edge is a broken edge. This was likely to have been a loop originally. The bow protrudes from the centre of the bow head and quickly tapers until it has a broken edge, therefore only a small portion of the bow remains. The bow is an semi-circular in section. The brooch is slightly abraded, and therefore does not have a patina. It weighs 5.76g, and measures 19.1mm wide and 29.1mm long.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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