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Gilded cast silver brooch: trumpet brooch from the Roman period, dating to c. 1st to 2nd centuries AD. The trumpet brooch has a typical oval head shape. The brooch is a hinged example. The hinge and pin are missing. The lug which held the pin remains at the back of the head. The head is decorated with a vertical central ridge divided with three grooves. The ridge expands at the top into a C-shape and at the base into two circles, each containing a pellet. To each side of the central ridge is an inverted S-shaped ridge containing a large pellet in each curve at the top and a pellet where the curve begins. The circumferential border around the head of the brooch is decorated with an undulating ridge. The bow arches out from the head and tapers towards the foot. The bow is sub-oval in cross-section. The bow is decorated with a petalled waist moulding, below and above which are two transverse mouldings within which are a series of vertical ridges. The central transverse ridge of the waist moulding is decorated with an undulating ridge. A vertical ridge decorates the centre and each edge of the leg of the brooch. Each half of the leg is decorated with continuous sub-oval moulding within which is a gilded pellet. The foot is rounded and almost complete. Above the foot are ten pellets running around the object above which is a band decorated with vertical grooves. The catchplate is incomplete. The flat side of the catchplate is decorated with two incised circles within which is an incised 'V'. On the outer curve of the catchplate is an incised zig-zag. The recesses between the raised mouldings on the brooch are all gilded. The object is in good condition. Similar examples can be found on p327, Hattatt, (2000). The brooch can be dated from 75-175AD.
Silver finger-ring with red semi-precious stone (carnelian?). Complete and in good condition. Henig type 11. Oval profile with a wide expanded bezel tapering smoothly at the shoulders to a narrow band, D-shaped in section. Patches of copper alloy corrosion product visible on the surface (before cleaning). The stone is oval, rather small for the size of the bezel and sits within a slight depression. A single incision mark is visible on the top. It appears that it has been filed down in antiquity to remove the design.
Silver finger-ring with red semi-precious stone (carnelian?). Complete and in good condition. Henig type II. Sub-circular profile with a wide expanded bezel tapering smoothly at the shoulders to a narrow band, D-shaped in section. Heavily corroded surface with a dark grey, roughened patina. The stone is oval and lies flush with the surface of the bezel. It is incised with a winged figure, possibly Victory or Mercury, facing left with one arm extended forward. Some damage to the surface of the stone is visible around the figure's arm.
Large silver-gilt trumpet brooch of Mackreth's Trumpet brooch sub-type 1.2c1 with petalled knop. Head is slightly hollow with R-shaped attachment for spring. Elaborate scroll pattern on head (two large open scrolls with complex moulding inside; separated by two trumpet like mouldings; the central moulding then curls back on itself into two tight scrolls above the central petalled knop, the lower bow in triangular in section and has two curvilinear relief-moulded designs resembling stylised waves, with projecting points, and diminishing in size toward the foot. The lower bow (recently broken and detached) has a knurled double moulding above the petalled foot, which terminates in a circular boss, with a central projection. The pin and head loop are missing. The catchplate has four perforations, three in a triangular formation towards the top and a single perforation towards the bottom. The outer edge of the catchplate is decorated with incised lines forming two elongated rectangular panels with internal oblique lines). A petalled rosette mount with a central boss, silver gilt, originally attached to the now missing head loop, is almost certainly from this brooch. The rear of the rosette is broken but two small round channels can be seen which held the headloop. Detached examples have been found at Wroxeter and Bourton on the Water (Boon 1978). Parcel-gilt, where the background is gilt leaving the silver scroll work to stand out in relief. Weight before cleaning: main brooch 84.2g, broken foot 6.2g; detached rosette 3.1g (total 93.5 g, but cleaning to remove soil will reduce this by several grams). Width at head: 25mm; Length (without headloop) 89mm. The seperate rosette consists of eleven thin petals surrounding a small conical boss, separated from it by a shallow moulded ring. The petals are spaced evenly with reserved spaces between them. The whole design is mounted on a circular base, 4.4mm thick with a concave edge and 4 moulded ridges around the circumference. Attached underneath the base is a thick, perpendicular cuboid fitting with two perforations and a concave lower edge decorated with mouldings. Two fragments of wire found with the rosette were probably originally threaded through the perforations, now no longer attached. The upper surface and sides of the base are gilded
Record created by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project. Imported and edited by M. Spoerri (June 2019 / Nov. 2024). Coin-level data added by M. Ball (July 2022). Updated by C. Gazdac (Jan. 2025).
