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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman Trumpet brooch. The brooch is damaged, missing the lower part of its bow. The headloop is also missing, as is the pin and spring. The head is also damaged and only the lower part of the distinctive trumpet head remains. The brooch appears to have been of Bayley and Butcher's group A, based on the full round-waist moulding visible on the bow. This consists of a central rib, surmounted above and below by a groove. There appears to be vertical moulding on the upper part of the bow also, although the brooch is quite worn and the exact decorative motif is hard to discern. The lower part of the bow appears not to have been decorated. Only the very upper part of the catchplate remains, visible as a vertical cast ridge on the reverse of the bow. What remains of the bow is straight in profile and measures 42.3 mm long, 10.9 mm wide and 10.5 mm thick. It weighs 11.4 grams. This group of Trumpet brooches dates from the late 1st to late 2nd century AD.
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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