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Description: | Copper alloy trumpet brooch. Foot and most of the pin are missing and the head has been bent towards the back of the bow. Trumpet shaped head with a projecting lateral pierced attachment loop at the back and at the top if this there is a triangular tab projecting upwards so it can be seen from the front of the brooch. The edge of the trumpet head has been bent inwards at the left side. The iron axis bar for the pin passes throught the loop and the remnant of the spring and chord of the pin are attached to it. The back of the trumpet head is hollowed around the loop, and has filled with iron corrision product from the axis bar. The front of the trumpet head and the upper part of the D-sectioned, taperinf bow are undecorated. Partway down the bow widens into a crude acanthus-style knop (a transverse disc with four vertical bars above and below and hollows between). Below and above the knop the the bow is decorated with two transverse ridges with zigzag infill between them. The leg is undecorated and tapers to where the foot has been broken off. Behind the leg is the remnant of a catchplate. It most resembles Hattatt R, 2000, The Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattat's Brooches, page 326, Fig. 185, number 1529, especially the palin style of the head and bow and the style of the knop. AD 1st to 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: | 50
199 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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