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Description: | A copper-alloy Roman brooch. Trumpet type brooch of probable first to second century AD date. The object is bent and corroded. The head is of the typical trumpet shape and measures 7.5mm wide. The spring is largely intact and consists of five coils of copper-alloy wire held in place by an external chor, which passes underneath. The pin is missing. At its base the head narrows into a waisted section decorated by a horizontal band. this gives way below to a decorated globular section measuring 5.5mm diameter by 3.5mm high. The lower part of the bow is sub-circular in section and measures 2.7mm in diameter. It is decorated on its display side with a repeating pattern of horizontally-aligned lozenges. The catchplate is damaged and the foot knob is of circular section and has three raised transverse ridges running around its circumference. Overall, the brooch measures 34.2mm high by 11.3mm wide (at the head) and weighs 4.08g. | 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
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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