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A Silver-Gilt Ornament from a ‘Carmarthen’ Trumpet-Brooch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

George C. Boon
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 152 - 153
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1978

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1 O'Neil, Helen, Antiq. Journ. xxix (1949), 85–6,CrossRefGoogle Scholar fig. 1. The present note is written at Mrs. O'Neil's suggestion.

2 Boon, G. C. and Savory, H. N., Antiq. Journ. lv (1975), 41–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 1948.5-3.1. My thanks are due to Miss C. M. Johns, F.S.A., for help in studying the object, and in providing the photographs.

4 Loc.cit., fig. 1, pl. 12a.

5 Boon, G. C., Arch. Camb. cxvii (1968), 45–6,Google Scholar fig. 10, 6, from Glyntawe.

6 Hawkins, E., Arch. Journ. viii (1851), 39,Google Scholar facing, whence Brit. Mus. Guide (1922), p. 55, fig. 62Google Scholar.

7 Strong, D. E., Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966), pl. 38aGoogle Scholar; cf. fig. 30 and accompanying discussion of trulleus-handles. The Backworth trulleus (Toynbee, J. M. C., Art in 'Roman Britain (1962), pl. 129)Google Scholar also has bird's heads; it is later than the Augustan period, but may well be considerably earlier than the latest known coin, of A.D. 139, from the Backworth deposit. Dr. Grace Simpson points out that the bird's heads also occur on bronze vessels (some Gaulish): examples will be found in Boesterd, M. H. P. den, The Bronze Vessels in the Rijksmuseum G. M. Kam at Nijmegen (1956), and inGoogle ScholarTassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze romaine et provinciate au Musée des Antiquités Nationales (19c Suppl. à Gallia, 1975).Google Scholar Jugs as well as skillets have bird's head handle-extensions.

8 e.g. Hawkes, C. F. C. and Hull, M. R., Camulodunum (1947), 326, pl. 98 nos. 172–3.Google Scholar

9 Tour, De la, Atlas des Monnaies gauloises, no. 9194Google Scholar; Lengyel, L., l'Art gaulois dans les Médailles (1954), pl. 40Google Scholar (but the beast is manifestly not a bear).

10 It is interesting to recall that the crescent was again to emerge in trumpet-brooch design, occurring (though removed to the centre of the bow and decorated in enamel) on Collingwood's S-iii variety (The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1930), fig. 62, nos. 65–6;Google Scholar (1969 edn.), fig. 104).

11 Loc. cit., 56, fig. 3.

12 Dunning, G. C. in Hillforts (ed. Harding, D. W., 1976), pp. 75–118.Google Scholar Only ‘Nauheim’ and ‘Colchester’ brooches came from the excavations. The latest certainly datable object was an imitated of Claudius, of a kind which formed the bulk of the small currency until the arrival of Neronian saes about A.D. 66.