Record ID: DOR-2DA80C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy brooch made from an English copper-alloy jetton of 13th - 14th century date. The jetton is similar on the reverse to Mitchiner 171, an English type datable to c.1280-1343. The obverse is obscured, but may be a shield of arms. Soldered to the reverse is a strip of copper alloy sheet which would have formed and attachment hook. Date: Medieval - c. 1280 - 1340 Dimensions: 22.98 mm x 2.09 mm Weight: 1.15 g Jetton brooches were popular in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the smaller English jettons often being so adapted. The fashion seems to…
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henstridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-2AC921
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy penannular brooch of Type A4, dating to the Roman period (AD 50 - AD 200). Only the brooch frame has survived and now is bent out of shape. The frame is circular sectioned, with flattened, grooved knobs and a single collar at each terminal. The metal is worn and mid green in colour. The frame is 66.1 mm long, 2.6 mm thick and weighs 4.0 g. The terminals are 5.2 mm in diameter. Penannular brooches have been classified by Booth (2014, 130) and this example falls under Type A4: flattened, grooved knobs with single collar. Many penannular brooches have bee…
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.