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Description: | A broken copper-alloy Trumpet headed bow brooch of probable late first to early second century date. The brooch has the familiar 'trumpet' head and moulded decoration on the bow. This decoration, a series of three collared horizontal ribs, is limited to the front and sides of the bow; the back is essentially flat. The bow of the brooch is broken below the moulded decoration. There is a very thin strip of metal which links the trumpet head to the bow, although this is a casting error and not a deliberate feature of the brooch. At the top of the head there is a a plate which extends from the rear of the head. A chain loop probably once extended from the top of this plate, but this is now broken and missing. On the front of the plate there is a cup indentation, and a brooch with a similar feature is illustrated in Hattatt (1987, 131; Fig. 42, 950). This brooch shares a further feature with the same example illustrated in Hattatt - a lug situated either side of the recess on the reverse of the head to hold the axis bar. Such spring fixings are seen on fairly small numbers of Trumpet brooches, and these have been seen as a feature of later Trumpet brooches, indicating a second century date (Hattatt 1987, 130; Boon and Savory 1975, 54). The recess in the head of the brooch is now filled with ferrous corrosion from the iron spring mechanism, the bar of which can still be seen running between the lugs which hold it in place. The brooch has a pale green patina, pitted in places. It measures 38.9 mm in length, 15.5 mm wide (across the head), 15.8 mm thick and weighs 13.7 grams.
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