BROOCH

Unique ID: WMID-E780C8

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Notes:

Comment from Sally Worrell (NFA Prehistoric & Roman Finds): It's not a Hod Hill but a late 1st-2nd C hinged head enamelled type. The oakleaf cells inlaid with red enamel are unusual but suggest that it's of Continental manufacture. There is a transverse ridge below the lozenge and the lower bow is missing but may originally have taken the form of a zoomoorphic terminal. A small quantity on early symmetrical brooches are known in Britain but are more common from sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and Pannonia with very few direct parallels known in this country. Examples of this brooch type show a vast range of decorative motifs and plates on the upper bow including lozengiform, rhomboidal, triangular, circular panels. Have a look at Bayley & Butcher 2004, 176-177.

Find of note status

This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance

Class: hinged head enamelled

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 28.85 mm
Width: 21.49 mm
Thickness: 11.9 mm
Weight: 6.5 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 4th February 2012

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Finder's ref: 4

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel