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Description: | A 2nd century Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch. A Mackreth [2011] Type 1.2c2 who dates them to 2nd century AD The object is complete except for its pin, mechanism and catch plate. It has an oval shaped hollow head which holds a perforated pin lug. Its bow is circular in section and is decorated with three raised mouldings or knops half way down the bow. The lower part of the bow is decorated with two opposed wavy, raised lines partly obscured by bronze disease. The reverse of this section holds the scar from a long catch-plate. brooch terminates in a rounded foot, whose base is missing.Mackreth DF, 2011 Brooches in Late Iron Age & Roman Britain. Vol I p 120 & Vol II p 84 pl 83 no 4984
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