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Description: | A cast copper alloy trumpet brooch. The bow head has no wings and in plan the bow head is a horizontal oval. The bow head is undecorated. The upper edge has a trace of a decorated integral lug, originally a fixed headloop. The decoration is in the form of a horizontal ridge. On the reverse of the bow head there are two vertical sub-oval integral lug with a central perforation. The lugs support a copper alloy axis bar around which there are traces of a spring. Only two coils of the spring remain. The pin is missing. Only a fragment of the bow remains, it is a lozenge in section and is narrowed. The break of the bow is not too recent. The brooch has a well developed mid grey/green coloured patina. It weighs 5.2g, and measures 21.27mm wide and 20.5mm long.The brooch is a trumpet type. Trumpet brooches date to the 1st to 2nd century (Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160-164). Worrell (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter) narrows the date to c. 75 to c. 175 AD.
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