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Description: | Cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, length 65mm, width 17mm, thickness 7mm, weight 10.94g. Oval head with a concave reverse. The spring would have been attached via two rearward facing lugs that would have been pierced in the centre to hold the spring support bar. The left lug is missing, this was broken while it was still in use and was subsequently repaired by drilling a hole through the left side of the head, a loop of copper alloy wire was passed through the hole, to replace the left lug, and the ends of the wire were splayed out on the face in order to hold the wire in position. On the top of the head is the remains of a plate, this plate has a recess band at the bottom and would have had an integral loop on the top. Halfway down that length of the bow is a moulded waist with a flat back. The rest of the leg narrows towards the base, the foot is missing. The back of the leg has the remains of the base of the catch plate, the rest has corrode away. The overall condition is very poor, many of the extremities have been badly effected by corrosion and in some areas this corrosion appears to be active. Similar examples have been excavated on sites such as Richborough roman temple and would corresponds with the Trumpet Style Brooch, Group B, which has a second century date (Bayley and Butcher, 2004, 161). Bayley J and Butcher S, 2004, Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection, The Society of Antiquities.
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