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Description: | Incomplete Roman tin-coated copper alloy Trumpet brooch in abraded condition and with the spring, pin, chain-loop and folded over part of the catchplate missing. There are faint signs of two round mouldings on the head and a single moulding above and below the mid-bow knop, whose petals extend around the bow. One patch of tin coating remains, on the lower part of the bow which is trapezoidal in cross-section. A small knob projects from the underside of the foot knob. Mackreth 2011, TR 1.2c1 and similar to pl. 81, no. 5009. This is not a local piece, "The absence of any major presence on the east is marked, for not even East Anglia seems to have any." (ibid. 120). Length 49.2mm. Width 18.8mm. c.80 - c.170. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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