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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, first half of 2nd century AD. The freely-moving hinged pin is broken c. half-way down, has a stop and is held by an (?)iron axis bar contained within a closed half cylinder at the back of the head. A small narrow (2.9mm wide) protroberance at the top of the head may be the base of a small broken loop. The head is sub-circular (almost circular) in plan, and is decorated with a raised semi-circular ridge with expanded triangular terminals, framing the top of the bow. The upper part of the bow is decorated with a longitudinal ridge with central groove flanked by a curved longitudinal groove on either side, and with two angled pointed ovals with central groove, at either end. The mid-bow knob moulding is sub-circular in section and has two rows of five raised pellets which do not extend to the back of the bow, flanking a central ridge which does extend round the back of the bow. There is a collar above and below the knob, consisting of three ridges, the central ridge beaded, the outer two plain. The lower half of the bow is curved and has the same decoration as the upper half. The plain foot knob is collared by a group of three raised ridges (the central being beaded, the outer two plain - like the collars for the knob), and the underface of the foot has a circular grooved border and raised central pellet. The hook of the solid catchplate is broken off. Fine green-brown patina with a few small areas of damage to head, knob and foot. Length 55.40mm, width of head 18.78mm, width of knob moulding 12.45, thickness 25.3mm, weight 24.80g. | 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: | 100
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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