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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Trumpet brooch, dating to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (length: 51mm; width at head: 15mm; thickness: 22mm; weight: 18.99g).A highly ornate brooch with some moulded Celtic motif scrollwork decoration, particularly near the head. The oval head has the remains of a projection at the top with an undecorated border running around the outside edge. The moulded symmetrical scrolled decoration to the left and right of the head comprises of a tear drop platform at either side with curved crescent-shaped mouldings extending out from the top. In between this decoration, two parallel lines run together to form a loop. Just below the head on the bow, the artefact becomes narrow before splaying outwards again before the upper transverse ridge. There is another transverse ridge below the plain central button. Underneath the lower transverse ridge, there is a single median rib with a small eye to either side, below which small diagonal ridges are pointing downwards towards the foot to create a V-shaped pattern with the ridges on the opposite side. This decoration terminates at a ridge running across the bow's width, with the rounded knobbed foot at the base.At the back of the brooch, only part of the copper alloy spring mechanism remains with the central lug and nearly four turns , as well as a small fragment of what would have been the pin extending out from the spring and the copper alloy axis bar is still present. The catch plate is mostly complete and curls round to one side to originally hold the pin. Overall, the brooch is in a worn but fair condition with small areas or bronze disease, particularly at the head and the catch plate.Similar examples are illustrated in Richard Hattatt's 'Iron Age & Roman Brooches', 1985, pages 106-7, ref no 431, found near Petersfield, Hampshire, which also features the eyes as part of the decoration, as well as the scrollwork at the head.
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