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Description: | A Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch inlaid with enamel dating to the period c. AD 50 - 150. The hollow head is decorated with transverse linear and curvilinear grooves. It exhibits stubs of a lost chain-loop. The bow is decorated with moulded ornate decoration - on each side between the foot-knob and centre button are two running S-scrolls retaining degraded now blue/black champlevé enamel. The button is decorated with transverse linear and curviliar moulding and the top of the bow with curvelinear. It exhibits a smooth, pale greenish patina though the spring coils, axis bar and pin and edge of catch-plate are lost.Comparable with no.431, pp 106-107 in Hattatt Iron Age and Roman Brooches 1985.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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