Casgliadau Arlein

Trumpet brooch with a marginal groove around the head. From the top of the head projects a rectangular plate decorated with incised transverse lines, from it projects a headloop all cast in one. The curve of the bow is angular and the waist has a plain band of ridge-and-groove decoration which does not continue around the back. The waist and the lower part of the bow are convex on the front and flat down the back, with marginal grooves running down the edge to end in a disc foot. The catchplate is plain. One lug projects from behind the head. A circular hole pierced through the head may suggest that the second lug was missing in antiquity, the hole providing a grip for the pin which appears to have been iron.

Pin and part of the headloop are missing.