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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch. The head has no wings and in plan is a sub oval with abraded edges. On the reverse of the bow head there is an incomplete single vertical sub-oval integral lug. The axis bar, spring, chord and pin are all missing. In profile the brooch is an inverted 'L' shape. When the bow protrudes from the bow head it is a sub lozenge in section, quickly becoming oval in section. The bow is decorated with three moulded horizontal ribs of varying thickness and width as decoration at the top of the vertical portion of the bow. This moulding continues on the reverse of the bow. Below this decoration the bow tapers slightly, is sub-triangular in section and is undecorated. The bow terminates with a blunt foot but it is heavily abraded. The reverse of the lower portion of the bow has traces of a catchplate. The brooch has a well developed incomplete light green/brown coloured patina. It weighs 11.7g, and measures 9.72mm wide and 44.41mm long. The brooch is a Trumpet-headed type. Trumpet brooches date to the 1st to 2nd century (Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 160-164). Worrell (Worrell, S. 2007 'Roman Brooch Timeline' North-West PAS Newsletter) narrows down the date to 75 to 175 AD. A very similar brooch is illustrated in Hattat (Hattat, R. 1987 Brooches of Antiquity Oxbow), No. 439. Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. (ibid) also illustrates a similar brooch, T158A. and further classify trumpet brooches into four groups, A,B, C and D. The recorded brooch appears to fall into Group A due to it having a single lug, but the recorded example appears to have an integral head loop rather than a separate wire one. The Group A brooch is likely to date to c. AD 70 to 120 (Butcher, S. 2001 'The Brooches' in Anderson, A.S, Wacher, J.S., and Fitzpatrick, A.P. The Romano-British Small town At Wanborough, Wiltshire Britannia Monograph No. 19).
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