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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British trumpet brooch. The trumpet head of this brooch is plain, with a very slight circular flange, which extends up to a rectangular portion from where the chain loop would have sprung. The loop is missing. The trumpet head has a significant ?pit? and is cracked. On its reverse is a square recess with V shaped profile. To one side of this is one transverse pin bar lug, with the opposing lug having broken off completely. The pin is entirely missing. The trumpet head extends into the bow of the brooch, which has an acute downturn and tapers. It is semicircular in section, having a flat back. The bow is decorated with ?chevron mouldings?, basically paired, opposing angled moulded lines. These appear at the narrowing of the trumpet head, on the hump of the bow and at the top of the foot parallel with the top of the catchplate. Above this lower moulding are two pairs of mouldings that in effect form a flattened saltire cross. There is no button to speak of, merely a gap between the pair of mouldings. Running from beneath the cross and through the lower moulded pair of lines is a groove that terminates at the moulded foot knob. The curled catchplate is solid and complete. The original surface is intact and has an even mid green patina (the brooch has been treated since discovery). The brooch is 58.68mm long, 13.38mm wide across the trumpet head, 4.88mm wide across the bow, 2.64mm thick and weighs 6.90g. This is a simple form of trumpet brooch and belongs to the ?Chester? type form. They date from the mid 1st century and lasted until late in the 2nd century. Though an exact parallel is not illustrated, Hattatt 1985 shows numerous ?Chester? variants. | 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: | 50
180 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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