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Description: | A small Trumpet style copper alloy Roman brooch, missing the catch plate and pin sections, dated to the 1st to 2nd Centuries AD.Approximately 25% of the brooch is present, consisting of the head and the upper part of the bow. The catchplate, foot, hinge and pin are all missing, presumably lost in antiquity. It is heavily abraded which limits the identification of any decorative details.The head of the brooch consists of a small, slightly flaring Trumpet style head. The back of the head exhibits a horizontal line, for the hinge belonging to the pin to have been fixed.The bow exhibits an increase in width from the neck, with a raised collar, approximately 5 mm wide and 5.65mm up from the end of the fragment, around the upper part of the bow. When the brooch was complete, this raised collar would have been half way along the bow. Due to the level of abrasion, it is not possible to say how this collar was originally decorated.The brooch is covered by a light green patina with no bare metal visible.A similar sized brooch is depicted as no. 956 in Hattatt, 2000 (pp 327) but has more decoration present than is visible on this brooch.The brooch measures 23.87mm in length, 6.97mm maximum width, 7.64mm maximum thickness and 9.84mm in height. The width of the trumpet head is 6.86mm. It weighs 3.0 grams.Reference:Hattatt, R. 2000. A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches. Oxbow Books.
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