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Description: | A Roman (1st to second centuries) trumpet brooch: The copper alloy brooch has an undecorated head which has no wings and in plan is a horizontal oval. The upper edge has a trace of a decorated integral perforated lug (headloop). On the reverse of the bow head there are traces of two incomplete vertical integral lugs with a central perforation and a fragment of the iron axis bar. The lugs would have supported an axis bar around which the spring would be coiled - the pin and spring are missing. The bow leads from the centre, towards the lower edge, of the head. The bow is semi-circular in section and is undecorated. The bow tapers towards a recently broken edge above the midpoint of the bow. The brooch has an incomplete green/brown coloured patina. It weighs 4.9g, and measures 16.39mm wide and 24.24mm long.The brooch is a Trumpet-headed type which Bayley and Butcher (2004, 163) further class into four groups, A,B, C and D. It is uncertain which category this brooch falls into.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
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