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Description: | Roman (late 1st to 2ndcentury) trumpet brooch: The bow head is sub-circular when viewed from the outer face. The head is decorated with a motif similar to an omega symbol. The centre of the motif sits over where the bow protrudes, and the terminals fill the field either side of the bow. The terminals develop into pellets with a fine notch across it. The upper edge has an integral, but incomplete, circular sectioned stud which may have been a hook or less likely a headloop. On the reverse of the bow head there is an integral cylinder with a slot in the centre which reveals a copper alloy axis bar within the cylinder. The chord and pin are both missing. On the outer face, protruding from the centre is the bow which is narrowed, sub-oval in section. In profile the brooch is an inverted, curvaceous sub 'L' shape which has moulded decoration on the bow, just below the bow head. The decoration is within two horizontal collars and is in the form of three horizontal ribs of equal thickness, but the upper and lower rib has equi-distant indentations which appear to be a devolved acanthus. This moulded decoration occurs on the reverse of the bow as well as the outer face. Below this moulded decoration the bow is undecorated and tapers to a broken edge, which may have been quite recent. There is only a trace of a catchplate on the reverse of the bow. The surface of the brooch is abraded and has traces of a light grey/green patina and traces of red copper corrosion. The brooch measures 35.72mm long, 19.18mm wide across the bow head, and weighs 15.38g.The brooch is a Trumpet type which date to the 1st to 2nd century (Bayley and Butcher, 2004, p. 160-164). A brooch with a similar cylinder on the reverse of the bow head is illustrated in Hattat (1987, No. 955). Bayley and Butcher (ibid) class trumpet brooches into four groups, A,B, C and D. The recorded brooch appears to fall into Group A or D, which dates to the late first to second century.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough CollectionLondon: Society of AntiquariesHattat, R. 1987Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford: Oxbow
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