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Description: | A copper alloy Roman trumpet derivate brooch dating to the period AD 50-175. The brooch is missing the curl of the catchplate, the top of the head loop is slightly distorted and the pin is bent. The brooch is 61.1mm in length, 16.8mm wide, 24.05mm thick and weighs 14.83 grams. The wings are D shaped in cross section and contain a iron axis bar which holds the pin within a slot to the reverse. From the head of the brooch projects a loop which is slightly distorted. The loop is decorated with a horizontal ridge decorated with vertical notches.Projecting from the wings the bow narrows towards the central button (16.65mm wide to 5.65mm wide) and is broadly oval in cross section. Flanking the button above and below are three horizontal ridges and two horizontal grooves. The button consists of three raised horizontal ridges, the upper and lower ridges have two cut notches to depict a flower.Below the button the lower brooch is triangular in cross section and is decorated with two horizontal grooves just above the foot. The foot is D shaped in cross section and is decorated with three horiztonal ridges flanking two grooves. The catchplate is triangular and is complete, the pin is slightly bent.Cf Hattatt, R, 2007, A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxbow Books, Oxford p 330 fig 189, no 962.
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