Roman Trumpet Brooch "Vindolanda"

Replica of a Roman trumpet brooch from Vindolanda.

Here you can buy a detailed replica of a Roman trumpet brooch from the 1st to the 2nd century AD after a find from Vindolanda.

This Roman brooch is known as a trumpet brooch due to its characteristic shape and was a typical brooch of the Roman imperial period with its main area of distribution in Britain. However, several examples are also known from the continent, especially from the Roman areas along the Rhine and Danube.

Although the trumpet brooch appeared as early as the late Neronian period, it was most widespread in the Flavian period. Its chronological peak was therefore between the end of the 1st and the middle of the 2nd century AD.

The historical model comes from the excavations of the British Roman camp of Vindolanda. This Roman auxiliary fort was built at the end of the 1st century near Hadrian's Wall under Emperor Domitian and is considered one of the most important archaeological excavation sites of the Roman period.

Link to the original trumpet brooch...

You can buy this Roman brooch in high-quality bronze or genuine silver-plated.
Alternatively, also available in 925 sterling silver (Please note the delivery time).
Alloy...


The dimensions of the trumpet brooch are 6.3 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm.

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Due to the conquest of Britain by the Roman Emperor Claudius from 43 AD, the previously Celtic-influenced culture of Britain received continental impulses, which led, among other things, to the development of a new type of fibula, the so-called trumpet fibula.

These Roman trumpet brooches appeared in different variations, for example with gold inlays or colourful enamel decorations. Trumpet brooches were often also fitted with an additional eyelet that was used to attach a chain, which was connected to a paired brooch on the other side of the shoulder.

In addition to the actual trumpet brooch, there was also the so-called brooch with trumpet ornamentation in Romano-British culture, which emerged from Celtic roots around the middle of the 2nd century during the Antonine period. The curved decorative style of this brooch is vaguely reminiscent of trumpets or bugles and developed into a popular style of jewellery in Britain, from where it spread throughout the empire with the Roman troops.