Record ID: WILT-207A94
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and slightly unusual copper alloy Roman (AD 1-100) Colchester Derivative brooch, missing part of the catchplate and wings, and the hinge mechanism and pin. It measures 41.18mm in length and weighs 7.9g. The head measures 14.70mm wide with a central slot for the pin. The wings are missing where they bend backwards. The bow is flat below the head but after c.7mm the sides of the brooch fold backwards to hold in place the catchplate which is apparently separate. A white substance appears to fill the voild around, giving the back of the brooch a rounded surface. The bow ho…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-444ED7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch probably of Alesia variant or Aucissa variant type and of 1st century AD date. The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin and foot and is distorted (with a distorted length of 41.5mm, a distorted depth of 22.2mm and a weight of 4.6g). The missing pin was hinged within the rolled-head (with a width of 9.5mm and a diameter of 6.5mm). The bow is of rectangular section (1.8mm thick at the head), with straight sides converging towards the leg. The surface of the bow is worn and it is now difficult to discern any decoration. There is the suggestion of incised …
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-446903
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy brooch of uncertain type, probably a plate brooch of 2nd century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary, missing one of the terminals (with a surviving length of 29.6mm, a surviving depth of 6.3mm and a weight of 2.4g). The brooch has broken at the end of the hinged terminal (with a maximum surviving width of 7.3mm). The mid-section is of rectangular section (with a thickness of 3.6-4.4mm) with concave sides. The front of the bow is decorated with three square recessed cells for enamel. The lower two cells retain the enamel, which is now brown. The brooch thins and na…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-9A7B65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Trumpet brooch. The flared sub-oval head is typical of trumpet brooches, the name describing the shape of the head; it is plain and has been abraded to one side. Below the head is an integrally cast chain loop, fractured at the centre. The spring, chord and pin are all missing. The upper bow travels up at a steep angle to a moulded high point. It is sub-circular in cross-section. The brooch has a central acanthus moulding consisting of a central transverse ridge flanked above and below by five moulded pellets. Beyond this 'button' is a transvers…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-9DF996
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head of a developed T-shaped brooch of local type with a expanded rectangular head plate. The head plate has broken, rounded corners and a slightly off-centre circular loop projecting from the upper edge. The front is decorated with three three raised horizontal bands. The lowest of these bands is wider and decorated with a row of incised rocker arm decoration running along its length. A thicker and broader raised band abuts the decorated band and runs to the lower edge of the plate. the back of the plate is plain. Along the straight lower edge, behind the thinker lower band, runs a c…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 1st July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alverdiston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9F8DD5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age/ Early Roman (AD 25-60/70) copper alloy Strip-Bow brooch, missing part of the catchplate and the shank of the pin. It measures 51.82mm in length and weighs 5.3g. The wingspan is 13.68mm. The wings curl backwards to hold the axis bar - traces of surviving corrosion suggest this was of iron. At the centre is a slot for the pin, with the head and top of the shaft now corroded in place. The bow is 9.32mm wide where it extends from the wings. It narrows to 6.67mm wide at the center of the bow, and then further to 0.56mm at the foot. The worn catchplate exten…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B08E46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman (AD 50-150) copper alloy (and probably enamel) T-shaped brooch with hinge mechanism, consisting of the wings and pin-head, incomplete chain loop and the top of the bow only. It measures 18.58mm long and weighs 4.6g. The 24.46mm wide wings are tubular (c.4mm diameter) and the triangular sheet copper alloy pin-head is fully moveable around the copper alloy axis bar to the reverse. One wing is a little damaged and a white substance can be seen inside. To the front the bow (12.46mm wide, 1.36mm thick) extends at 90° to the top of the wings, and it is at this poin…
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ogbourne St George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-DA6CB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast disc brooch of Roman date (AD 80 - 250), missing a probably enamel setting, and possibly a centre-boss decoration. It also has a damaged edge and two incomplete terminals, and to the reverse a broken lug for the spring mechanism (also missing) and a cachplate missing its curl. The brooch measures 25.09x19.14x6.01mm and weighs 2.4g. The brooch is circular with an angled edge 2.23mm high. It is hollowed to 1.35mm deep at the rim, rising in the centre a little to a circular setting 2.14mm in diameter. The larger area retains a degraded ?enamel, now orangey brown in c…
Created on: Friday 1st July 2011
Last updated: Friday 1st July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-4E9DC0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy enamelled plate brooch of 2nd century AD date The brooch is of oval form with six equidistant peripheral lugs, one now lost and is near-complete, missing the pin but is slightly distorted (with a distorted length of 35.9mm, a maximum width of 20.7mm, a distorted depth of 8.0mm, a thickness of 2.1mm and a weight of 5.0g). The missing pin was hinged between two perforated lugs, positioned behind the apex of the brooch, rather than the peripheral lug. The catch-plate is eroded and extends onto the rear of the peripheral lug. The six peripheral lugs are circular (4.6-…
Created on: Friday 12th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2AB0D0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy Hod Hill brooch of 1st-century post-Conquest date, missing its head and foot. The central part of the bow survives, decorated with four longitudinal ridges with grooves between. The grooves flanking that in the centre appear to feature incised wrigglework in the usual zig-zag form. The artefact has broken at one end of the bow, presumably as it transitioned into the head. The sides are also abraded and their nature unclear. At the other short end of the bow the junction with the catch-plate is marked by two transverse grooves between transverse rid…
Created on: Sunday 17th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pitching Piece', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2AD257
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative brooch (AD 50-150), consisting of the lower bow and catchplate only. The fragment is 33 mm long and 10 mm wide, weighs 3.7 g., and is in poor condition.
Created on: Sunday 17th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pitching Piece', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2BEF72
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy T-shaped brooch (AD 50-150), consisting of the tubular wings and top of the bow, which is finished in a linear design. The remains of the pin, and the spindle, are of a different alloy which has resisted corrosion. The pin still moves freely around the spindle. The fragment is 20 mm long and 21 mm wide, weighs 3.7 g., and is in poor condition.
Created on: Sunday 17th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pitching Piece', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D7B381
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman (AD 43-70) copper alloy Hod Hill brooch with upper side lugs, missing the head and pin. It is bent and measures 51.08mm in length and 26.82mm in max.width (across the side lugs), and weighs 5.9g. The upper bow is decorated with ?4 vertical ribs and a wide central groove, up to the moulded central button of two transverse ribs (max.7.55mm wide), rounded to the front only. The upper bow is flattened and slightly twisted. The side knobs are an extension of the upper bow and filled with an additional three vertical ribs. Above is a broken projection 10.47mm wide whic…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Avebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D89D17
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly unusual incomplete Roman (AD 50-150) copper alloy Colchester Derivative, of Harlow type brooch, with damaged wings and missing its spring mechanism and pin. It measures 57.83mm in length and weighs 14.9g. The wings are D-shaped in cross-section being flat to the reverse. They are broken at either end and span an incomplete 17.12mm. A decorative groove remains to one side. The bow extends from the front and top of the wings, with an additional pierced crest extending above the wings along the centre of the bow for a quarter of its length. The piercing is for the m…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 26th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Avebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D914F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but damaged Roman (AD 50-150) copper alloy T-shaped brooch with hinge mechanism. It measures 51.28mm long and weighs 5.1g. The 21.05mm wide wings are tubular (c.4mm diameter) and decorated to the front only with a pair of transverse grooves at each open end. To the reverse the triangular sheet copper alloy pin-head is fully moveable around the copper alloy axis bar. The shank is rather bent. One wing has a white substance inside (visible at the open end). To the front the bow (6.67mm wide and slightly concave) drops vertically from the wings. Above is a platform and pl…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Avebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-675A22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Trumpet type and of 1st to 2nd century AD date The brooch is near-complete, missing the spring and the chain-loop (with a length of 45.1mm, a depth of 18.9mm and a weight of 5.1g). The missing spring would have coiled around a single pierced lug on the rear of the head. Remnants of iron corrosion indicate that the axis bar was iron and suggest the spring may also have been iron. The head is near-circular (9.1mm wide) with the remnants of a broken chain-loop at the apex. The upper bow is of D-shaped section (6.6mm wide and 4.6mm thick at the head) …
Created on: Monday 1st August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
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Record ID: WILT-B7C503
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman (AD 43-200) tinned 'bow-and-fantail' brooch missing the bow, pin and the curl of the catchplate. The brooch measures 20.55mm in length, 15.15mm wide, 6.65mm thick and weighs 1.84 grams. The fantail, almost the only surviving part of the brooch, is triangular and connects at its upper point to the bow, of which only a fragment survives. The engraved decoration on the front of the fantail consists of a small lozengiform shape above a broad D-shape containg a pelta and two circles.
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B876B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Aesica brooch dating to the 1st century AD. The spring is bent but otherwise intact, but the pin is missing. The brooch is 34.95mm in length, 23.40mm in width,16.50mm and weighs 16.82 grams. The wings are 20.50mm wide and C-shaped in cross-section. The wings are each decorated with a diagonal groove and a vertical groove. The rest of the brooch is formed from two parts. The first is a plate which extends at right angles from the wings. It has the broad shape of two triangles laid end to end with their upper points towards the wings with circular …
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CEA956
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch probably of Trumpet or Trumpet-headed type and of 1st or 2md century AD date The brooch is fragmentary and is represented by the head only (with a surviving length of 15.5mm, a surviving depth of 7.9mm and a weight of 2.3g). The spring remains in place and appears to be made of iron, secured around a single central lug. The chord is missing but seems to have been positioned beneath the spring. The head is oval and is comparatively small (10.4mm wide and 7.2mm high). The bow appears to have been of sub-triangular section, with straight sides, narrowing t…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-4DFEB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Check findspot Roman cast copper alloy Knee brooch variant with hinged pin and divided bow. Only the head and upper part of the bow survives, the rest is lost to an old break. The head is formed on a rectangular bar, 18.6mm long, slightly convex on the front and concave on the back. Slightly off centre on the back are two lugs with rounded tops drilled to hold a separate copper alloy spindle between them. In the gap between the lugs, on the spindle, appears to be part of the head of the pin, now corroded in place. The upper part of the bow is divided into two bars with a slot betwee…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Easterton', grid reference and parish protected.