Rights Holder: National Museums Liverpool
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Unique ID: LVPL-DDF7C5
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper alloy dragonesque brooch of Roman date. The brooch is curvilinear in form resulting in a roughly S-shape and is flat. The body of the brooch is decorated with two triangular recessed cells at each end with two circular cells in the centre. These would have been filled with enamel and no traces are retained. flanked by two triangular recessed cells each of which would once have been in filled with enamel. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The tail of the dragon is bent at a 90 degree angle and the object is covered with a dark green and brown patina. Iron staining is visible on each face of the object which has a light green patina.
Similar brooches are illustrated in Mackreth, 2011, Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, volume 2, plate 129.
Class:
Dragonesque
Sub class: Mackreth (2011) DRAG 3.b2 Plate 129
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 175
Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 25th January 2015
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Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mackreth, D.F. | 2011 | Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain | Oxford | Oxbow Books |