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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Trumpet Headed bow brooch of Roman date, dating from the late first to second century AD. The brooch is in fairly poor condition, missing its head loop, pin and catchplate and suffering from corrosion. Ferrous corrosion from the spring and pin has given most of the brooch an iron appearance, though it is certainly copper-alloy. The bow is decorated with moulded lateral ribs which do not extend to the reverse of the bow, which is flat. The brooch lacks the intricate decorative moulded associated with some Trumpet brooches. The pin mechanism is sprung, with an axis bar around which the spring is coiled, although most of this is missing and what remains is corroded. The head of the brooch is decorated with a central moulded rib which runs down towards the central moulding on the bow. Either side of this rib symmetrical sub-triangular mouldings create a lozenge shape when viewed together. The foot of the brooch terminates in a collared knop. The brooch measures 47.17 mm long, 11.6 mm wide (at the head), 6.98 mm thick (at the thickest part of the bow) and weighs 10.9 grams. It has a corroded ferrous orange appearance with patches of green copper-alloy showing through.
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