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Title: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Kev on February 28, 2011, 06:16:12 PM Doc any ideas please found by Melonhead last Saturday about 3 & half inces long !!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: waltonbasinman on February 28, 2011, 06:23:31 PM Not a clue Kev but looks Roman or Bronze Age but that means it is probably a modern chest handle. ;D
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: avalon on February 28, 2011, 07:21:27 PM It's a trumpet brooch!
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: geordiefred on February 28, 2011, 07:29:02 PM Is it just me or does one end look like a horses hoof?
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: legio11augustus on February 28, 2011, 08:15:50 PM looks like a pipe tamper to me
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: avalon on February 28, 2011, 08:28:50 PM Still a 2nd Century Trumpet brooch without the pin and the bottom catch plate.
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: nomad on February 28, 2011, 08:30:49 PM i tend to agree avalon ..on a second look..its not a pipe tamper....but then again im no expert
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: onehorseAl( Al) on February 28, 2011, 08:37:27 PM Nice find,is it hollow?
Al :) Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: The Doc on February 28, 2011, 09:50:34 PM I agree with avalon (who should know what a Roman brooch looks like ;D ). It's an incomplete trumpet brooch 1st to 2nd century AD. This one on PAS is in a similar condition:
http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/408101 (http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/408101) Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: Kev on February 28, 2011, 09:57:14 PM thanks Peter & Avalon. Melonhead will be pleased he did say Saturday it could be one but we both said no more about it . he will be over the moon now with this i.d. hes off line at the mo computer troubles will ring him and tell him.thanks again both.
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: waltonbasinman on March 02, 2011, 10:32:48 AM Well done Mark. I can see it now. Great ID Peter and Avalon.
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: tyna on March 02, 2011, 11:48:24 AM My thoughts were a brooch as soon as I saw it - but hey I'm no expert either!! Best leave the def identifications to the expert anoraks - we're lucky to have them :)
Title: Re: Any ideas !!!!!!!!!!!! Post by: legio11augustus on March 03, 2011, 08:28:21 AM well i like to have a guess , im going to be right one day lol
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