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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch with hinge mechanism and variant plate head - the head is rectangular with an integral loop (now broken). The brooch is missing its pin and the curl of the catchplate. It is slightly bent from the 'button' upwards. The rectangular head measures 24x19mm and is flat, except for the wings which are tubular and lie at the very bottom of the head. The axis bar is intact and apparantly copper alloy. The top of the pin wrapped around the axis bar is in situ though damaged. The front of the head is decorated with three central horizontal ribs, triangular in section, giving the impression that one overlies the next. The gaps between are also triangular so in profile it looks zig-zag. Working from the bow-end upwards, between the first and second rib the area between is decorated with two rows of opposing diagonal incised lines. This is repeated above the thrid rib. A moulded wing area 6.5mm tall is at the bottom of the head, and apparantly for decorative purposes only. It has a vertical groove at either end, as on the wings of some T-shaped brooches. This is actually higher than the actual wing, which is 4mm tall. The bow, where it extends from the head, is triangular in section. It extends directly from the centre of the decorative wing area. Compared to the lower bow, the upper bow is quite short c.15mm before reaching the non-acanthus button, either side of which is a double horizontal moulding. It is undecorated on the reverse, as is the lower bow which is much flatter and narrows over 45mm to a semi-circular foot made up of two curving ribs. The catchplate extends from just below the reverse of the button. It is mostly missing with jagged edges, although part of the curl survives. The brooch fits with Collingwood's type R(iii), it has a non-acanthus button and has no decoration on the reverse. It appears to belong to Hull's type 158E, seemingly peculiar to an area centred on Wiltshire. It is apparantly identical to one on display in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum from Armsley in the New Forest, and the head is identical to another, also on display in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, in the Pitt Rivers Collection, from Iwerne, Dorset. length 78.5mm, wing- (or head-)span 24mm. Weighs 23.26g. 1st-2nd century. | 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: | 1
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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