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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Trumpet brooch. The head, spring, axis bar with chain loop and the upper part of the bow survive intact, the remainder is missing due to old breaks. At the head of the brooch is a spring of six coils missing the pin and held in place by a copper alloy axis bar. This extends upwards to form a circular suspension loop held in place by a rectangular copper alloy collar. The collar has moulded triangular recesses ont he exterior surface that may once have held enamel or similar decoration. The head of the brooch is trumpet shaped with a small projecting knop above the integral lug through which the axis bar passes. The back face of the head is flattened and with a raised collar at the bottom edge. The trumpet narrows to the flat backed bow but terminates in old breaks. On its exterior surface the trumpet is decorated with a series of moulded fields or panels that would have contained now missing enamel. These comprise transverse bands at the top of the head beneath which is a small central lozenge shaped panel that is split in half by a central raised vertical rib. Beneath the lozenge and to either side of the central rib are single large crescent shaped fields. It is uncertain whether there would once have been further similar areas of decoration below the crescents due to encrustation that renders the original surface invisible. The entire fragment measures 26.27mm in length, 17.37mm in width, and weighs 11.45g. This is the head of a Roman trumpet brooch with flat backed bow and enamelled decoration (see Blagg et al., 2004: pp. 99). Similar examples with crescentic enammeled decoration on the head are noted in Hattatt (1989: nos. 432-433, 957 and 1528) and suggest a date in the late-1st to mid-3rd centuries AD for the current example.
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