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Description: | Incomplete Roman trumpet-headed brooch, missing the spring mechanism, pin and lower bow and catchplate, and now in two pieces. It weighs 11.51g.The plate-head is oval in shape (30x26.6mm, inclusive of loop) but with some damage to the outside edge. The head appears to be surrounded by a bevelled edge. A flat loop extends upwards above a double groove with lunched decoration. Its piercing is 3.4mm in diameter. The loop is slightly off-centre.The bow extends downwards from the bottom-centre of the head and is oval in section (8.8x7.4mm). This is where the break has occured, and it is interesting that the top of the bow shows a very balck, porous copper alloy at its centre with a sheet copper alloy 0.9mm thick around. The joining fragment also shows this sheet copper alloy at the break, but beyond filled with a copper alloy of the same colour which by the time it reaches the top of the lower bow (at another break), the bow can be described as 'solid' copper alloy.The reverse of the head has a hollow C-section housing for the missing spring. Two lugs (one now damaged) extend backwards from the head and would have held the axis bar. The brooch has been repaired sometime in antiquity as it has a 2.4mm diameter piercing just above and to the side of the bow, and on the outside casing of the hollow for the spring. The intact lug holds a piece of circular-sectioned wire, bent to form a loop. This and the hollowed area for the spring show iron corrosion.The bow has an incomplete half-acanthus decoration, broken just above the lower leaves, which are missing. The acanthus decoration is bound by three transverse ribs on the upper bow. The bow is 29.3mm in length.Cf. A similar damaged trumpet brooch with repair to the lugs from Hampshire, WILT-48E093.
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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