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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Trumpet Brooch with enamelled detail. Brooches of this type date from between 75-175 AD. The head, bow and foot remain intact. Behind the head is part of the original pin fitting - a loop with a small protrusion extending from its top. This would have originally held a spring from which a pin extended. The head itself is wide and trumpet shaped. The front surface of the head is highly decorated and enamalled. This decoration consists of a central raised line with a mirror image pattern on either side - with a red enamelled background, with two small triangles at the bottom (in which any enamel has been lost), there are two semi-circles half way up which are still partially covered with blue enamel and another two small triangles at the top enamelled in yellow. There are two raised collar encircling the front of the brooch at the base of the head followed straight away by the acanthus decoration. The acanthus decoration is elaborate and the reverse of it is also highly designed and shaped. It consists of a central knob enwrapped, both above and below, by three 'leaves'. Below this are three further collars once again only encircling the front of the brooch. This is followed by a straight lower bow which is decorated with a groove down either side and a raised spine. At the top of the lower bow there is a diagonal cross with a line through the middle. The central spine is decorated with a column of eight lozenge shapes, which decrease in size closer to the foot. This may have been further decorated with enamel, but this has now been lost, apart from a tiny fragment of what may be red enamel in one of the sections of the pattern. At the base of the bow there is a single collar encircling the whole bow followed by the foot knob. This is slightly damaged and thus the detail on it is hard to make out. However, it appears to have consisted of a flattened knob held by 'leaves' with a small knop in the very centre of the terminal. To the reverse of the bow, the remains of a catchplate can be seen. This has been damaged in places and the catch itself has broken away. The reverse of the bow is stepped, with the catchplate in the centre. The metal is mid greenish-brown in colour and the brooch survives in very fine condition. Similar to examples in Hattatt p.327, fig.186, no.432.
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