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Description: | Copper alloy brooch. Trumpet brooch, Mackreth Type TR 1.5a. A broad plain head with a narrow longitudinal central ridge has a pierced lug behind which retains an eight coil spring with a bent and detached pin, a chord, and a hollow axis bar [the finder has inserted a paperclip into the remnant axis bar to hold the object together]. The mid bow bears a drum-shaped moulding passing all around the bow, though projecting more markedly in front. This has two circumferential grooves, with the upper and lower zones perhaps residual petals, and with traces of billeting on the central ridge. The central boss is flanked by simpler mouldings, each of two circumferential ridges retaining faint traces of billeted decoration, probably hand cut. The lower bow has an elongated longitudinal waisted panel with a narrow border. At the base of this, three moulded ribs of increasing size separate the bow from a pedestal foot shaped as a paw with three pads. An unpierced catch plate remains behind the lower bow. Suggested date: Early Roman, 80-150.Length: 44.4mm, Width: 30mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 7.1mm, Weight (including paperclip): 41.66gms
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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