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Description: | An incomplete, cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the trumpet type, dating from AD 75 - 175. The remaining portion consists of the trumpet and most of the bow. The upper side of the bow is decorated with a worn acanthus button, flanked by two broad, deep grooves, together with a smaller ridge beneath the lower of the two grooves. These ridges do not continue on the underside of the bow and there is no other decoration. The trumpet head has two small projecting lugs on the reverse, both pierced to take a copper alloy pin bar. The copper alloy bar remains in place, but the hinged pin is missing. A fragment of the catch plate remains of the underside of the lower end of the bow; the rest of the plate and the end of the bow have both broken away and are missing. The brooch has a light green patina. It is 31.8mm long, 9mm wide and 11.9mm thick. It weighs 3.34gm.A similar brooch is illustrated in Hattat, 2000, Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figure 189, number 443.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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