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Description: | A Roman incomplete copper-alloy trumpet derivative brooch dating to the period c. AD 50 - 150. It exhibits a narrow roughly circular cross-sectioned body that expands centrally into a subtriangular plate and continues in cusps both sides to form a larger subtriangular head. The cusped plates have a moulded linear border and two median pellets, the cell retains remnants of now blue champleve enamel.The drilled wings retain a separate copper-alloy wire axis bar and a remnant of copper-alloy wire four coil spring from which the pin is lost. The front of the head retains a stub of a possible chain loop; the back of the body turns upwards slightly at the end and shows a possible break where a foot once existed, on the reverse a lost catch-plate is represented by median ridge that runs for one third of the body length.Length: 31.56 mm, width: 11.88 mm, thickness: 2.93 mm, weight: 3.5 g. In fair condition with some green patina remaining.A similar example from Norfolk is illustrated in Mackreth (2011).Cf. Mackreth, D. F, 2011, Vol. I, p. 126, Type 3.4.Mackreth, D. F, 2011, Vol. II, p. 89, pl. 86, no. 13489.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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