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Description: | A near complete cast copper alloy trumpet headed brooch dating to the Roman period c. 75 - 200AD. The bow of the brooch has an angular profile and an angular D-shaped cross section. The bow tapers from a flared head to the mid point where a cast plate is present and then tapers again to a rounded bun shaped, turned, foot knop. The brooch measures 41.1mm in length, 11.5mm width (across head), 13.1mm width (across the central plate) and 5.1mm width (across bow); it is 3.5mm thick (across bow at the same point). The brooch weighs 5.55 grams.The head of the brooch is complete, oval in plan, and tapers into the bow. The reverse of the head has a sub-rectangular recess in which is positioned the turned pin / spring. The spring pin is formed from a length of copper alloy wire; the spring is turned four times and the chord of the spring is internal. The pin is broken at the junction with the pin and the spring is held in place by a copper alloy axis bar that passes horizontally through the head of the brooch. Above the head of the brooch is an integrally cast D shaped head loop; this is decorated with a transverse cast bar positioned at the junction between head and loop. The internal surface of the loop is lightly worn and the outer loop has a pointed upper edge. The head of the brooch is not decorated apart from a single circumferential grove around the outer edge of the trumpet head. The head is also slightly faceted / angular in appearance. The bow of the brooch is D shaped in cross section. The head of the brooch tapers into the body, at the mid point a inverted pelta shaped plate extends. The centre and two wings seem to be decorated with roundels - possibly originally inlaid with silver wire or enamel which is now lost. A double transverse bar is present beneath the pelta where the plate tapers to the lower bow and an abraded and broken out-turned foot knop. The catch plate is formed from a rib which extends from a point beneath pelta plate and terminates above the foot knob. The catchplate is incomplete and the external edge presumably forming the pin rest has been lost. The catch plate is sub-triangular in shape. The bulbous foot knop is decorated with a single band of inlaid silver wire which extends around the circumference of foot. The wire is an unusual survival. It seems to be decorated with a series of punched annulets which make the ring look as if it were formed from twisted wire that has been flattened.The brooch is of a mid brown green colour with an abraded patina which covers all surfaces. It has been affected by movement in the ploughsoil. A number of similar brooches of this type can be seen in Richard Hattatt's Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches; page 329. Similar pelta decoration can be seen on example 1535 although the other elements differ considerable. All the brooches in this section are dated to the 2nd century AD.
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