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Description: | The leg and foot from a broken cast copper-alloy Roman Trumpet brooch (1st/2nd century AD). The break seems to have occurred just above a button at the junction of bow and foot. At the break the bow is broadly plano-convex in cross-section. There is a transverse ridge above and below the button. The button itself is broadly rectangular and slightly convex, with a concavity on the lower surface. It is decorated with a central transverse ridge created due to transverse grooves above and below. This zone has been bent upwards as a result of the old damage that has broken the brooch.The leg is flat and tapers very slightly as it travels to the foot from the button (W.: 6.8 - 4.1mm). On the lower surface, the triangular catch-plate survives well, apart from abrasions at the fold. Its web extends c. 19.2mm up the leg in total. On the upper surface it terminates in a defined button formed of a double ridge, a characteristic feature of Trumpet brooches. For a Trumpet brooch with a similarly plain button see Hattatt (2000, 328; ref. 438B).
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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