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Description: | A cast copper alloy trumpet brooch of early Roman date. The brooch measures 55.7mm by 16.3mm by 8.5mm and weighs 16.4g. At the top of the sub-circular head of the brooch there is a projecting knop. On the reverse of the head is the loop which would have held the spring. The spring itself and the pin do not survive. The flared upper part of the bow is decorated with two symmetrical panels of moulded geometric patterning. The bow narrows, then flares out again into an acanthus knop. Below this the lower bow tapers gradually into the flared forward-projecting foot. The damaged curving triangular catchplate is behind the lower bow. The front of the lower bow has a triangular cross-section, with two facets on the front. Each is decorated with a symmetrical vertical line of triangles. No. 432 in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue' (2000, p. 327, fig. 186) is similar. This example is from East Anglia.
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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