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Description: | Roman brooch; cast copper alloy trumpet brooch of 2nd century date. The brooch a rounded, trumpet-shaped head with a pierced lug on the back to hold the sprung pin.The bow has a large decorative boss in the middle, moulded with three vertical 'petal' shaped lobes coming to a horizontal bar. Similar, but inverted, lobes descend from the other side of the bar. The bow tapers from the central boss to a flat, rounded, semicircular foot terminal. The catchplate is present behind the lower bow. The pin is missing.Length 57.8mm, width (at head) 17.7mm, thickness (at central boss) 8.6mm, weight 22.46g.Ref: Hattatt 'A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches' (pp. 326, fig. 185)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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