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Description: | Cast copper alloy trumpet brooch, length 28mm, width 22mm, thickness 16mm, weight 8.93g. Oval head with a concave rear and two rearward projecting loops on either side that would have held the strap bar, which is now missing. Moulded scrollwork decoration on the top of the head runs down the top of the knee, from which point the rest of the leg has been truncated 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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