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Description: | Cast copper alloy two-piece bow brooch. The chord, pin, lower half of the bow and catch-plate are missing. The brooch contains a bilateral spring held by a copper ally axis bar through a cast lug on the back of the trumpet head with the chord below and free, just pressing against the back of the head of the brooch (cf. Type G Hattat 1982, 49, table 2). The upper part of the lug does not extend above the back of the head. The decoration on the middle of the bow is not of the usual "acanthus" form, but instead consists of a wide notch. Other decoration on the brooch consists of curvilinear panels on the head or upper part of the bow including two inset stylised "eyes" set on either side of the head. Microscopic examination suggests that traces of blue enamel remain in parts of the curvilinear panels. One side of the spring is enveloped in ferrous corrosion which suggests that a replacement iron pin was added to the brooch following the loss of the original copper alloy pin. Minimum length 52mm.
Trumpet brooches are a common type and are found throughout Roman Britain on both military and civilian sites. The brooch type has a date range from the mid first century AD to the late second century AD and although closer dating on typological criteria has been suggested its validity is not certain (Hattatt 1987, 128; Mackreth 1997, 136). Two antecedents for the type have been suggested: the Pannonian "Kraftig Profilierte" type and the pre-Roman Aylesford type (Hattatt 1982, 104; Hattatt 1987, 126-128). The absence of a protruding chain loop suggests that this is an early form of the Trumpet brooch cf. Hattatt 1982, 106, no.79. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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