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Description: | Head and bow of a devolved trumpet or T-shaped brooch of local type with a expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a fan (D shaped) plate with a concave back and convex front and 12.5mm talll. Along the straight lower edge is a cylinder 18.8mm wide with a central slot. This cylinder holds the cross bar on which the pin hinges, pivoting in the slot. There is damage to one end of the cylinder but it is otherwise complete and the bar is in place. The damaged area has exposed some white material, possibly solder or paste (calcium, carbonate). Around the upper edge the plate is stepped in slightly on the front. This thinned border is damaged on one side and is expanding at the centre into a loop, now broken. The bow extends from the lower part of the centre of the head, above the slot and cylindrical cover.The upper part of the bow is D-shaped in section with a slightly flatter back It is even in width down to the central moulding, 3.4mm wide by 3.1mm thick. The central moulding is formed of two smaller outer collars then three closely spaced large inner collars the outer two of which each have two indents to divide them into three petals. The collars are all flat on the back and there is a slight concavity behind the central ones. The lower part of the bow and foot, below the central moulding is wider and flatter and tapers slightly in width from the moulding to the foot. It is 5.8mm by 2.8mm thick at the top and 4.1mm by 1.7mm thick at the foot. It is triangular in section with a flat back and slightly central ridge which is flanked by a pair of incised lines running down the length. There is an expanded D-shaped knop at the foot with a flat back and upper and lower side and convex outer side. It is divided into three by two indented transverse lines across the front.The catchplate starts immediately below the moulding with a long, curved upper edge and a rounded lower edge ending level with the foot knop. The curled over outer edge which formed the catch is broken and irregular with most of the catch missing. The pin has a flat triangular head which still hinges on the cross bar. Below the head it is oval in section and tapers gradually to the point. It is slightly bent, particularly near the point.The brooch is now 50.6mm long and 25.3mm thick; it weighs 10.14 grams.This appears to be a local variant which combines the waist moulding of trumpet head brooches with the devolved T-shaped brooches with expanded fan shaped heads with cylindrical hinge covers along the lower edge, see SOM-B6D415, SOM-EE2BE3 and SOM-EE4922 on this database and Bayley and Butcher (2004:167-8), which developed as a response to trumpet head brooches. Previous catalogues are split in assigning them to the devolved T-shaped tradition (Wedlake 1982:125-7, no.48 and 49) or to a sub group of the trumpet head brooches (Mackreath 2011:127-8, no.5471 Type 5). In either case they are thought to be a produced in the south west and to date from the 2nd century. SOM-EE00E2 on this database is very similar.
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