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Description: | Cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, length 35mm, width 17mm, thickness 9mm, weight 5.86g. Oval head with a concave rear and a loophole on either side for the strap bar, which is now missing. On the top of the head there is the remains of a loop. The head is plain and narrows to a moulded knee, which consists of three concentric circles, there is the remains of red enamel in one of the circles. The rest of the leg is missing below the knee. 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.
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