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Description: | A Roman cast copper-alloy silvered trumpet head derivative brooch dating from the late first to second centuries AD. The brooch has a circular head, similar to the characteristic heads of the trumpet types, but also has a circular stud on the bow, before the curve of the head. This open stud has a central circular recess, and so was presumably intended to hold a setting, perhaps of stone or glass. Above the stud a collar runs horizontally around the bow. Below, the bow has a central ridge, flanked on the edges by moulded vertical ribs. The bow terminates in a double collared circular knop. On the reverse of the bow the triangular catchplate survives almost intact, though it was perforated and the apex of the perforated plate is missing. The head is not hollow as in many trumpet headed brooches, and instead the sprung pin mechanism was attached via an integrally cast perforated lug, through which the spring axis passed. Part of this axis and the sprung mechanism remains, although the pin is missing. The brooch is well preserved and much of its silvered surface remains, although areas of green copper-alloy corrosion are visible where the brooch has seen damage and wear. It measures 51.56 mm long, 15.8 mm wide at the head, 22.21 thick from the head to the rear of the bow and weighs 20.1 grams.
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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