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Description: | Cast copper alloy Trumpet brooch. The brooch is in exceptionally fine condition and is complete apart from its pin. The head is oval and convex, and has a single integral lug in the centre on the reverse. A copper alloy bar passes through the lug and forms the axis bar for the spring. The bar continues up the sides and forms a suspension loop at the top, held around its waist by a grooved strip of copper alloy. The spring has six turns to it in total, having three to either side of the lug with an internal chord below. The bow is comma shaped and tapers to an elaborate fully-rounded acanthus reel in the centre. There is a moulded rope-like collar above and below the reel. The lower bow is triangular in cross-section and has a neatly incised perimeter. The foot terminates with a solid flat-footed rope-like collar. The catchplate is intact and contains a small fragment of the copper alloy pin within the rolled-over section.
The brooch has a mid-green even patina and slight signs of corrosion around the spring. | 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: | 70
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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