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Description: | Head and upper part of the bow of a Roman cast copper alloy trumpet brooch of Group C missing the spring, pin, lower part of the bow and foot. The brooch has a flat oval head 12.6mm by 12.4mm with a slightly raised rim around the upper part on the front. this rim is decorated by regularly spaced diagonal incised lines. On the back of the head is a semi-circular lug running down the centre parallel to the bow with a hole through it to hold the cross bar for the sping. At the top of the lug is a slight projection which may be a part of the casting seam that was not tidied.The bow rises at 70 degrees from the head and curves round 90 degrees in the upper part before running straight to the break. There is a group of three mouldings just above the break, probably about a third or a quarter of the way down the bow. The bow is circular in section in the upper part. The mouldings run around the front and sides and are slightly flattened although still visible on the back. The upper and lower mouldings have a broader inner collar and an adjacent thinner, outer collar. The outer mouldings are separated from the central one by deep grooves, narrower than the rest of the bow. The central moulding has a thick inner collar flanked by thin outer collars. The lower part of the bow, below the mouldings, is missing to an old break. It is 26.0m long, 14.3mm thick and weighs 5.36 g.Bailey and Butcher (2004:161-2) suggest Group C brooches (T154A) are a distinctly South Western group and may have been made locally or in the West Midlands dating to the second century.SOM-C2FA46 on this database, from Martock, South Somerset, is very similar to this exmaple and more complete.
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