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Description: | An incompete and very worn cast copper-alloy Roman trumpet derivative brooch. It is missing the head loop, most of the pin and the foot of the brooch due to old breaks. The head of the brooch is trumpet shaped with a flat back face that has a central transverse ridge containing a separately cast copper-alloy axis bar. At the centre of the ridge is a rectangular slot through which hinges the remains of a separately cast copper-alloy pin that terminates in old breaks just below the head. Extending from the top of the head is an incomplete but integrally cast loop. The front face of the head has traces of moulded and enamelled decoration comprising a possible grooved border that contains the remains of red enamel, the precise detail of the decoration now uncertain due to post-depositional wear. At its base the head tapers towards a narrow bow that has been twisted to an angle of approximately 45 degrees from the plane of the head. The bow appears to have the remains of a vertical rib that extends from the top of the head down the centre of the bow to a transverse moulding. This transverse moulding is rectangular in form, possibly originally with acanthus leaves or other decorative elements now not visible due to wear, with rectangular collars and trnasverse grooves above and below. Beneath the transverse moulding the bow terminates in old breaks. The entire fragment is extremely worn with much of the detailed decoration now uncertain due to post-depositional wear. It measures 32.72mm in length, 12.54mm in width at head, 3.25mm in width at bow, 2.54mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 5.35g.This is a Roman trumpet brooch with hinged pin similar to examples published by Hattatt (for example Hattatt, 1989: nos. 440, 955, 965). It is of probable 1st-2nd century AD date, c.43-200 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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