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Description: | A slightly corroded and damaged cast copper-alloy Roman Trumpet brooch. The majority of the brooch survives, with the exception of the pin. The flared trumpet head is sub-circular with a flat lower surface from the centre of which protrudes a loop, a truncated oval in shape. The bow is D shaped as it emerges from the head. There are grooves between the bow and the head giving the latter a moulded quality. Above these grooves there is a pair of diagonal lines on the bow giving a 'V'.The brooch has a central moulding flanked by prominent transverse grooves and ridges, these latter formed of two conjoined semicircles. The 'button' is decorated within curvilinear mouldings at the top and base, two conjoined semicircles with the rounded sides in the field. The leg below has the same faceting and cross-section as the upper bow. It terminates in a prominent double knobbed terminal. On the lower surface the catch-plate survives very well the catchplate has small horiztonal incisions running down its length adjacent to the foot.The brooch is 48.75mm in length, 23.85mm in width, 4.25mm thick and weighs 9.6 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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