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Description: | A cast, copper alloy Roman brooch of very unusual design. It is a trumpet derivative with an unusual Luna shaped plate half way down the bow. The brooch has an integral headloop decorated at the front of the base with three pellets above a row of beading. The head of the brooch is circular and is clearly a trumpet. There are two integral lugs on the reverse, supporting a pin bar and a sprung pin of probably 6 turns (corrosion obscures the details). Most of the pin is missing. The front of the head is decorated with a central vertical ridge, and an eye on each side, consisting of a raised subcircular cell. At the pint on the bow where the acanthus button would normally be is a flat projecting plate. This is damaged but appears to have originally been pelta shaped. There is a corroded lump in the centre of the plate projecting forwards. This may have originally been a moulding or a loop. Beneath the plate, the bow is narrow for a short distance, and then there is a simplified pseudo acanthus button. It is a thick rectangular collar across the front and sides of the bow immediately above the catchplate. The front is decorated with four horizontal rows of beading. The bow below has a central ridge and tapers to the foot. This is discoidal and tilted forwards. There is a small rounded knop as the terminal. Part of the catchplate survives. Traces of silvering survive over the whole brooch. No close parallel has been found, but most Trumpet derivative brooches date from the second century.
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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