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Description: | Cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, length 41mm, width 12mm, thickness 28mm, weight 17.65g. Oval head with a slightly concave reverse. On the back of the head is a rearward facing lug that has two holes, the bottom one is truncated, this would have held the spring, this area is encrusted in iron corrosion which is all that remains of the pin. The head is decorated by moulded motifs, but is too corroded to make out any detail.
Halfway down that length of the bow is a moulded waist. There may be further moulded decoration on the leg, but again this is heavily corroded.
The overall condition is poor with corrosion removing all of the detail.
Similar examples have been excavated on sites such as Richborough roman temple and would corresponds with the Trumpet Style Brooch, Group B, which has a second century date (Bayley and Butcher, 2004, 161).
Bayley J and Butcher S, 2004, Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection, The Society of Antiquities. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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