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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester Two-Piece Trumpet brooch. What remains of the bow head is a sub triangle in plan. All the edges of the bow head are abraded, and this therefore may not be the original shape. On the reverse of the bow head there is a fragment of an integral lug visible. The hinge or spring and pin are missing. The bow protrudes from the bow head. The bow is triangular in section. In profile the bow and bow head form an inverted ?L? shape. Below the apex is a moulded acanthus. The acanthus is simplistic and consists of a single horizontal swelling with a wide groove above and below. The lower portion of the bow tapers to a broken terminal, therefore the foot and lower portion of the catchplate remain. The catch plate, is on the reverse of the bow is incomplete. The brooch has traces of a green/grey coloured patina. It measures 30.28mm long by 6.59mm wide across the bow. It weighs 3.4g and is in poor condition.
Hattatt (Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow) describes these brooches as being Trumpet types which date to the 1st to 2nd centuries. He illustrates a similar brooch, No. 436 ((Hattat, R 1985 Iron Age and Roman Brooches Oxbow). | 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: | 43
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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