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A Silver Trumpet-Brooch with Relief Decoration, Parcel-Gilt, from Carmarthen, and a Note on the Development of the Type

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Summary

The Carmarthen brooch, datable not later than c.a.d. 50 and perhaps as early as c. 25, is a direct two-piece successor to the pre-Roman, one-piece, Aylesford type, now known to be considerably later in date than used to be thought. The two-piece construction, which characterizes the entire British trumpet-brooch series, was adopted as a convenience when the bow was given a massive form in order to accommodate Late Celtic decoration in relief, of a western character and antecedents. The central moulding and foot carry petalled ornament of a ‘transitional’ or ‘supporting’ type: this ornament is reminiscent of that sometimes found between the circlet and terminals of early La Tène torcs abroad, but is probably better understood here as the carefully-designed continuation en suite of the open flower or rosette upon the headloop, and thus as half-open flower. Only the Carmarthen brooch retains such a headloop rosette.

The Carmarthen brooch was soon copied in bronze, and on these copies the relief appears in a coarsened and simplified form. The copies are entirely from western findspots. In the southern part of the region in which they occur, the medial petalling is retained (as at Lydney); but in the northern part, additional simplification has led to the suppression of the medial petalling (as at Segontium). Thus the Carmarthen brooch may be seen as the parent of the more fully-developed Rii class of Collingwood's typological sequence, and also of at least one strand in the Ri class, which has been considered up to now as the original form. In the west Midlands, perhaps seizing the opportunity offered by the simplified relief, craftsmen began to apply red enamel to the hollow areas, and to emphasize the central moulding, with its petalling, so that this became the principal plastic ornamental element (as at The Lunt, by a.d. 75). In the north of England, these novel features, enamel and exaggerated moulding, were further developed. The fine northern brooches (Backworth—not enamelled, but engraved—or Risingham) do not have headloop rosettes, and it was in the presence of their exaggerated central mouldings that Collingwood devised his celebrated ‘acanthus’ theory. By the Antonine period, brooches were being produced with polychrome enamel, and with their mouldings confined, very often, to the front of the bow; many of these have been found along the Rhine. Some late derivatives of the Carmarthen type are known from Wroxeter, and form a final group in the Appendix above.

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page 41 note 2 Mr. Jones wrote after his retirement to say that the finder had misled him as to the place of discovery and that the brooch could have come from anywhere. But we had understood that the of what had been an unrecognizable lump of corroded matter, to which the rosette-headloop had not been considered to belong, was Mr. Jones himself. And without wishing to enter more deeply into the matter, we affirm our belief that the circumstances of discovery as originally communicated, such as they were, were correct.

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page 46 note 5 Archaeologia, lxxx (1930), 49Google Scholar, on fig. 6a; but the Beckhampton brooch mentioned is of a different type.

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page 47 note 1 Pattern and Purpose, pl. 26B: a La Tene I type, cf. Jacobsthal, pl. 33.

page 47 note 2 Cf. the tore in the British Museum cited above, p. 46, n. 7.

page 47 note 3 e.g. from Boscoreale, , Strong, D., Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966), pl. 38Google Scholar A: notice the open-flower rosettes. Krämer mentions parcel-gilt brooches (dissimilar pair in a La Tène II grave, Dühren), 130, Taf. 30, 2–3.

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page 47 note 6 Krämer, 121, Abb. 4, nos. 3–5. By Allen's dating (‘The origins of coinage in Britain’, in Frere, S. S. (ed.), Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain [1960], pp. 297–8Google Scholar, following Colbert de Beaulieu) these brooches are provided with a terminus ante quem of 56–51 B.C.; but Krämer, 128, thinks that this is too early; and that because there are other Jersey hoards of Armorican coins which end with Roman coins of 39 and 32 B.C. respectively, Le Catillon hoard may well be post-Caesarian also.

page 47 note 7 Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelaeological Soc. 1. 3 (1921-1922), pl. 24Google Scholar, poor drawing; personal inspection, January 1973, by courtesy of Prof. E. K. Tratman, F.S.A. Though this brooch survived the 1940 air-raid which destroyed the Society's museum, it is now very frail, and the other La Tène III brooch on the same plate perished.

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page 47 note 9 M, B.., Antiqs. ofRoman Britain (1922), fig. 57Google Scholar; Allen, Romilly, Celtic Art, pl. facing p. 102Google Scholar, top two.

page 47 note 10 Thompson, F. H., Antiq. Journ. xliii (1963), 290Google Scholar, fig. 2 (silver-inlaid Rii with early moulding). (To his list of this type add Gardner, W. and Savory, H. N., Dinorben (1964), pp. 133–4Google Scholar, fig. 16, 1.)

page 47 note 11 Brewis, W. Parker, Arch. Ael.ser. 3, xxi (1924), pls. 7, 7 and 9, 2Google Scholar.

page 47 note 12 M, B.., Antiqs. of Roman Britain (1922)Google Scholar, fig. 62 (from Hawkins, , Arch. Journ. viii)Google Scholar; inadequate in 1951 ed., fig. 9, 17. The Backworth hoard is obscure. The best account is Haverfield's, in A Hist, of Northd. ix (1909), 2632.Google Scholar Of 280 denarii, the latest was said to be of A.D. 139, but no others are specified, and two sestertii of Pius were not dated nor their condition given. For a step towards at least a kunsthistorisch dating of the brooches, compare the similar style of engraving on the Romanizing umbo from Peter-borough, , M, B.., Later Prehist. Antiqs. (1953) flg. 25, 2Google Scholar.

page 48 note 1 Boon, G. C., Arch. Camb. cxvii (1968), 45Google Scholar, fig. 9–poor; better, the brooch, Polmaise, P.S.A.S. lii (1917-1918), 27Google Scholar, figs. 1–2.

page 48 note 2 Allen, Romilly, Celtic Art, facing p. 102Google Scholar, lower two.

page 48 note 3 Green, C., Proc. Prehist. Soc. XV (1949), 188, fig. 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 48 note 4 Krämer, Taf. 23, Lauterach and Manching.

page 48 note 5 Saalburg-Jahrbuch, xiii (1954), 34Google Scholar, Abb. 5, 9, and 58, Abb. 3 show curious eastern European La Tene III brooches with internal chord; they have a ‘reversed La Tène II’ foot-construction, the upper strut of the catch-plate being wrapped round the bow. They are thus the exact opposite to what the vestigial markings seem to imply.

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page 48 note 9 About twenty years' difference in the date of Le Catillon (p. 47, n. 6) would not make much difference to this point.

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page 49 note 11 Spratling, M., Current Archaeology, ii (1970), 188–91Google Scholar, figs. 1–2.

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page 49 note 15 Beds. Arch. Journ. V (1970), 1314.Google Scholar Upon personal inspection of the piece, we should add that the statement by Green, Charles, P.P.S. XV (1949), 189Google Scholar, followed later by Fox, that the ornament consistsof ‘caststrips rivetedon’ seemstotallyerroneous: what we have are rivets for attaching enamel studs (traces of red enamel, though now gone, are mentioned by Smith).

page 50 note 1 See above, p. 44, n. 6; Fox, , Pattern and Purpose, pl. 41cGoogle Scholar.

page 50 note 2 Ibid., pl. 12D.

page 50 note 3 Megaw, J. V. S., B.M.Q. XXXV(1971), 145–54, pl. 59A-BCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 50 note 4 It is not known whether, or to what extent, the Welsh sources of argentiferous lead were worked before the Roman period; but prima facie there is no reason why they should not have been worked, as the Mendip deposits almost certainly were.

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page 50 note 6 Archaeologia, lxxx (1930), 44Google Scholar.

page 50 note 7 Ibid., 48.

page 50 note 8 Cf. for example the remarks on brooches, Silchester, Archaeologia, xcii (1947), 144–5Google Scholar, fig. 8.

page 51 note 1 Above, p. 47, n. 12.

page 51 note 2 Archaeologia, lxxx (1930), 45Google Scholar.

page 51 note 3 Ibid., 50.

page 51 note 4 (1930), 251–4; (1969), 296–7.

page 51 note 5 Wheeler, R. E. M., Y Cymmrodor, xxxvii (1926), fig. 58Google Scholar, nos. 1–6, of which no. 3 is the possible Rii, and no. 5, not a trumpet-brooch but a head-stud brooch, is from a stratified context with first to second-century pottery.

page 51 note 6 Roman Britain and the English Settlements (1936), p. 243Google Scholar, n. 1; (1937), ibid. The continental occurrences of trumpet-brooches are listed by Böhme, Astrid, Saalburg-Jahrbuch, xxvii (1970), 520Google Scholar, in common with other types of British brooch, There are indeed no trumpet-brooches from the Odenwald Limes, to which an inscription of 145–6 refers British garrisons (Schonberger, H., J.R.S. lx (1969), 161, 167Google Scholar, Map B, forts nos. 98–104). There is every possibility of earlier arrivals on the Continent in any case, not to mention other units returning from Britain. The actual dating-evidence for Rii-Riv brooches in continental contexts maybe mentioned. Jacobi, H., Saalburg-Jahrbuch, iii (1912), 165Google Scholar, referring to the Saalburg finds, says ‘nach der Fundstelle unter dem Wehrgang auf der Sohle [sie] gehören … in die Zeit nach dem Erd-kastell, also etwa in den Anfang oder die Mitte des II. Jahrhunderts’. The Erdkastell was occupied until c. 135/9, 139 being the latest date at which the Cohrs II Raetorum, c.R. arrived as garrison of the much-enlarged fort (Hartley, B. R., Saalburg-Jahrbuch, xxvii (1970), 30Google Scholar; Schönberger, , loc. cit., p. 165Google Scholar and note 164). By ‘unter dem Wehrgang’ Jacobi meant the mound behind the fort wall. But as Dr. D. Baatz has kindly informed us, there is no question of a useful terminus ante quem of 139 for so developed a type, because the fort wall was later rebuilt and the mound is associated with the second building, which dates to the second half of the second century. Other continental occurrences are in graves at Thuin (Namur province), with a coin of 15 5–6, and at Rheinzabern, with a sigillata plate stamped ABBO F, also Antonine (Böhme, , loc. cit., pp. 10, 16Google Scholar, no. 38; p. 18, no. 44—Ludowici's, illustration in Cat. iv (1912), p. 176Google Scholar, of the second brooch is poor, but it looks an Rii).

Other Rii-Riv brooches have been found at Nijmegen, three in the area of G. M. Kam's Cemetery ‘S’, which was mostly in use before the Batavian rising of c. 70, though unpublished material carries occasional use into Flavian times (van Buchem, H. J. H., De Fibulae van Nijmegen (1941), nos. 1202–4Google Scholar, pl- 14 nos- 10, 13)-Unfortunately the material from ‘S’ (like that from G. M. Kam's other cemeteries ‘E’ and ‘O’) was all collected by workmen and others when the area–‘S’ is on the west of the fortress, more or less where the Rijksmuseum G. M. Kam now stands–was ‘developed’; and as Prof. J. E. Bogaers has explained to us, there are no grave-inventories and all must be treated merely as stray finds, possibly indeed derived from the second-century occupation of the fortress in some cases. Bogaers himself has suggested that the British brooches were brought back by elements of Legio IX Hispana, in garrison during the earlier 120s (Studien zu den Militärgrenzen Roms (1967), p. 74).Google Scholar We show here as pl. XIIIc one of the ‘S’ cemetery brooches (no. 1202, Kam Mus. Nr. 651) by courtesy of the Rijksmuseum Kam and of the late Dr. M. H. P. den Boesterd. Typical of continental finds of Rii-Riv, it is clearly of a much more advanced date than those discussed here and shown to belong to Neronian or Flavian times. There are in fact rather better brooches with a terminus ante quem of c. 140 from Newstead (Curie, , op. cit., pl. 86, 13–14)Google Scholar stratified at the base of the little rampart surrounding the bath-house of the equites.

page 52 note 1 Loc. cit. (p. 41, n. 4): inter alia, ‘there is no evidence that Ri is earlier than Rii’.

page 52 note 2 Wheeler, Sir M., The Stanwick Fortifications (1954), p. 50Google Scholar, fig. 15, 2; cf. the section, fig. 10, layer 4c: layer 6, which preceded it, contained a fragment of Dr. 18 which might be Vespasianic (fig. 7, 4). Two second-century Dr. 31 shards are mentioned, ibid. 32 and fig. 7, 7; fig 11, 30 is late third or fourth century.

page 52 note 3 Mackreth, D. in Hobley, B., Trans. Birm. Arch. Soc. lxxxiii (1969), 106Google Scholar, fig. 19, 9. A Silchester brooch (Boon, G. C., Roman Silchester (1957), fig. 17Google Scholar, 4 = Silchester, the Roman Town of Calleva (1974), fig. 19Google Scholar, 5) is very close, and together with other southern examples may tell us something ofthe true origins of the enamelled ‘graceful northern’ trumpet variety, e.g. Curie, , op. cit., pl. 85, 11Google Scholar.

page 52 note 4 Hull, M. R. in O'Neil, H. E., Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. lxxxi (1962), 37–8Google Scholar, fig. 5.

page 52 note 5 Similarly-decorated central mouldings appear on brooches from Corbridge and the Derbyshire caves (Arch. Ael., ser. 3, vii (1911), 181Google Scholar, fig. 11; V.C.H. Derby, i (1905), figs. 35, 39).Google Scholar This ornament occurs on terrets of the first century B.C, cf. Spratling, M., Antiquity, xlvii (1973), 122Google Scholar, fig. 3, no. 8, of which examples from northwest Suffolk (?), Christchurch (Hants), and Gussage All Saints (Dorset) are mentioned. On a brooch-moulding, it may be a reminiscence of La Tène II, cf. Dechelette, , La Tène, 1253Google Scholar, fig. 535, 2 (Dühren, Baden).

page 54 note 1 To whom we are also indebted for enabling us to explore the stratigraphical associations through the medium of the records of the Usk excavations of 1968.

page 54 note 2 Distribution kindly communicated by Mr. Hull.

page 54 note 3 The quotation is from Thomas Sheppard's original account in Hull Museum Puilns. no. 38 (1907), p. 260.Google Scholar The brooches are illustrated in line by S. C. Hawkes, ibid., no. 214 (1963), 27, fig. 2. The Coritanian coins, being uninscribed, would imply a date long before c. 49 for the deposit of the brooches, if indeed all the components of the group belong together. On the coins, cf. Derek Allen, ibid., p. 33; and his Coins of the Coritani (Sylloge of the Coins of the Br. Is., no. 3, 1963), pp. 11Google Scholar, 33 for the Lightcliffe and Honley hoards, which contained inscribed issues, and Roman imperial coins down to Gaius and to Vespasian respectively.

page 54 note 4 e.g. trumpet-brooches from Poltross Burn milecastle (before c. 140) and its close match, noted by Collingwood, from Charterhouse-upon-Mendip: Gibson, J. P.et al., Trans. C.W.A.A.S. N.S. xi (1911), 441Google Scholar, no. 2, fig. 20, cf. pl. 2, section E-F, for layering; F.C.H. Somerset, i (1906), facing 338Google Scholar, fig. 92, centre. Cf. also the trumpet-headed Sii class, Antonine, Richardson, K. M., Antiq. Journ. xl (1960), 200–13CrossRefGoogle Scholar, fig. 1.

page 55 note 1 Mr. Hull drew our attention to this brooch, and Mrs. S. H. M. Pollard, the excavator, gave us very full details and lent us the brooch for study. The dating is based on the accumulation of sigillata in the ‘midden’, studied by Dr. Grace Simpson for Mrs. Pollard: the latest piece is somewhat earlier than 150. Cf. Pollard, Sheila, Proc. Devon Arch. Soc. xxxii (1974), 78–9, 138–9Google Scholar, fig. 22, 2; Samian, 111 ff.

page 55 note 2 Somewhat similar shackles are very well known, good parallel occurs on a trumpet-brooch (Ri) from Elton, of which Mr. Hull sent us a drawing.

page 55 note 3 Cf. Aileen, , Fox, Lady, ‘A decorated bronze mirror from Holcombe’, Antiq. Journ. liii (1973), 2137Google Scholar.

page 55 note 4 Ibid. 23.

page 55 note 5 Ibid., pls. III-V.

page 57 note 1 Webster, G. A. in Wacher, J. S. (ed.), Civitas Capitals ofRoman Britain (1966), p. 35Google Scholar.

page 57 note 2 Both Arthur Evans and Parker Brewis emphasized the native character of the Backworth type, see Archaeologia, lv (1897), 181–2Google Scholar, and Arch. Ael. ser. 3, xxi (1924), 173Google Scholar: ‘the brooches are not Roman but British, their decoration being not of classic but of Keltic character’.

page 57 note 3 Clifford, E. M., Bagendon, a Belgic Oppidum (1961)Google Scholar, with a report on over 70 brooches by M. R. Hull; end of occupation, ibid., p. 21.

page 57 note 4 Information from Mr. Hull. A northern outlier is that from Thirst House Cave, near Buxton: V.C.H. Derby, i (1905), fig. 35Google Scholar, lower right.

page 57 note 5 Almgren, O., Studien über nordeurop. Fibelformen (Mannus-Bibliothek 32, 1923), Taf. 4, Type 65Google Scholar; cf. Kovrig, I., Die Haupttypen der kaiserztl. Fibeln in Pannonien (Diss. Pann. ii. 4, 1937)Google Scholar, Group VIII.

page 57 note 6 Evans, , loc. cit.Google Scholar; Hawkes, , Antiq. Journ. xx (1940), 495Google Scholar; The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1969), pp. 296–7Google Scholar.

page 57 note 7 See Hull, M. R. in Riciborough, v (1968), p. 83Google Scholar, list; pl. 29, nos. 37–9. There is a useful note on the type as represented in the cemeteries of the Unatal, by Marié, Z., Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, i A (Sarajevo, 1971), 4950Google Scholar.

page 58 note 1 See below for north Italy; Stradonice, Filip, J., Keltové ve středni Europe [The Celts in Central Europe] (1956), pl. 126Google Scholar, for a series; named by Bren, J., Trišov, a Celtic Oppidum in S. Bohemia (1966), pp. 78–9Google Scholar.

page 58 note 2 Cf. the Schüsselfibel type, Krämer, Taf. 23, 4 and 27, 1, Manching, Stradonice.

page 58 note 3 P.P.S. xxxi (1965), 241367Google Scholar.

page 58 note 4 Agostinetti, Paola Piana, Documenti per la protostoria della Val d'Ossola (Centro Studi e Documentazione sull'Italia Romana, Monogr. a suppl. degli Atti, i, Milano, 1972)Google Scholar.

page 58 note 5 Ibid. 34–5, fig. 10. (Cf. Bianchetti, E., I sepolcreti di Ornavasso (1895), pl. 10, 15Google Scholar, and Moberg, C.-A., Acta Arch. [Copenhagen], xxi (1950), 108Google Scholar, fig. 9, for the same; headloop and tip of foot lost by the time it was drawn for Agostinetti.)

page 58 note 6 Ibid. 27–8.

page 58 note 7 Boon, G. C., Antiq. Journ. xli (1961), 1331CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 59 note 1 Agostinetti, , op. cit., pp. 3640Google Scholar, fig. 12, 1–2.

page 59 note 2 The original publication by Evans, , Archaeologia, lii (1890), 381Google Scholar, fig. 18, misses this detail, but cf. M, B.., Early Iron Age Antiqs. (1925), p. 127Google Scholar, fig. 138.

page 59 note 3 Krämer, 128–30.

page 59 note 4 This was a point made to one of us (G. C. B.), in connnection with a La Tène I brooch from Silchester, by Mr. A. M. ApSimon.

page 59 note 5 Swarling and Deal, Bushe-Fox, J. P., Swarling Report (1925), pl. 12Google Scholar, 3 (one of a dissimilar (?) pair); pl. 15, 16. Arundel, , Hawkes, , Antiq. Journ. XX (1940), 492–5Google Scholar.

page 59 note 6 One from Mont Terrible (Jura Bernois), Lerat, L., Cat. des Colls, archéol. de Montbéliard, Les Fibula galio-romaines de Mandeure (1957), pl. 9, no. 164Google Scholar; one from Presles-Saint-Audubert (Aisne), Birchall, A., loc. cit. (above, p. 58, n. 3)Google Scholar, 355, no. 282, ‘one of the few with internal chord’; one from Alizay (Eure), Hawkes, C. F. C. and Dunning, G. C., Arch. Journ. lxxxvii (1930), 197Google Scholar, fig. 11, no. 5–but the middle of the bow, and any mouldings there, missing.

page 59 note 7 The Deal brooches may be compared with those from Lički Ribnik (Croatia), all but identical except in the matter of their external chord, apparently datable to c. A.D. 6–9 (Krämer, 131, Taf. 30, 4–5).