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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy trumpet brooch of Roman date (AD 75 - 175). The spring, pin catchplate and foot are missing. The bow head has no wings and in plan the bow head is a horizontal oval. The bow head has two transverse incisions above the bow below the incomplete lug which form a V and taper towards the bow. The upper edge has a trace of a integral lug, originally a fixed headloop. The sides of the head are decorated with four ridges intersperced between three incisions located on either side next to the incomplete lugs. On the reverse of the bow head there are the remains of two vertical sub-oval integral lugs with a central perforation. The bow is decorated with multiple motifs, a central vertical ridge runs along the centre of the bow from the two transverse incisions to the old break. Two sets of three parallel projections are located along the surviving length of the bowand project from the sides of the bow. The bow is broadly triangular in cross section. The brooch measures 26.6mm length, is 14.4mm wide and 10.7mm thick. It weighs 3.04 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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