Record ID: SWYOR-A310E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman Headstud, hinged T-shaped brooch with toothed edge and crest shaped like a dog, c. AD 60 - 100. The bow of the brooch is decorated with seven transverse, raised ridges joined together with a central raised spine running along the bow. The shoulder of the bow carries a small, zoomorphic mount in the form of an animal, possibly a dog, with the head facing down the spine of the bow towards the foot. The sides of the bow are decorated with eight small roundels on each side, containing traces of dark green enamel. There is a small foot, at right angles to the main part…
Created on: Monday 5th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
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Record ID: NLM107
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Head from a cast copper alloy brooch of trumpet type, most of bow and foot missing. Plain, expanded head around the edge of which is an incised line, Hinge type pin mechanism, part of pin surviving. Loop, now broken, extending from head, it is encircled by a strip of copper alloy across the face of which are two transverse lines. Length 33.3mm, Width 22.5mm, Height 20.3mm, Mass 11.80g
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM109
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy plate brooch, oval and decorated with two concentric ridges. Remains of two attachments on back. Lentth 27.8mm, Width 23.6mm, Mass 3.76g
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WAKEFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM1428
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Near complete (pin extinct), separate stud type (stud extinct), uncertain. Decoration, if any to bow, dull brown and green surface, active bronze disease.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST YORKSHIRE KNOTTINGLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM448
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Flat disc brooch of early simple type. Hexactinal pattern of bronze discs around central circular recess (now empty). Trace vivid blue enamel remaining. Reverse flat with bilateral spring. Near complete. Part of disc sheared off. Very end of catchplate extinct. Stable olive-light green patina.
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST YORKSHIRE DARRINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-E29F57
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Colchester derivative, double lug, Harlow-shaped brooch dating from the 1st century (probably a Dolphin type). The brooch has long cylindrical wings which are hollow at the back and contain a spring of 18 turns (9 on each side). The spring passes through a central lug at the centre of the head. The bow has a humped back and protrudes slightly above the wings and tapers down towards the foot of the brooch. The foot, catchplate and pin do not survive. The brooch weighs 16.75g and measures 38.15mm in length, 38.5mm in width and 16.6mm in thickness (from front to back).
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2005
Last updated: Saturday 19th October 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-085DC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Cast Copper- alloy head stud type brooch. The pin is missing and the chain loop is broken. The head stud is of the same design as button loop fasteners of this period.
Created on: Thursday 11th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-14EF37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy Trumpet Derivative brooch of the Alcester type, dating from AD 100 - 250, missing the foot and most of the pin. The trumpet-head measures is circular and hollow. The base of an integral head loop extends from the top, but the loop itself is missing. On the reverse, two side lugs hold an intact copper alloy axis bar. Still around this are four coils of the spring pin, the remains of a chord curling underneath, and a tiny stub of pin. The front of the head loop base is decorated with three silver pellets, each surrounded by silver beading. The front …
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-A3DCFA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy knee brooch dating from AD 150 - 250. The pin mechanism is missing. The bow is of a distinctive reversed 'S'-profile; in plan the bow tapers rapidly towards the foot, and flares again slightly at its terminal. The metal is very corroded. Compare LIN-4D12F3 and others on the database. The brooch is 27.8mm long, 13.8mm wide and 9.6mm thick. 3.12g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-5B200C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incopletev copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative, rear hook brooch, dating from AD 43-65. The brooch has a rearward hook to hold the spring mechanism, which is now missing, along with the pin. The wings are semi-cylindrical. The fronts are decorated with a vertical groove at each end and flanking the bow, and a diagonal groove from the top of the bow to the bottom corner of the wing. Single oblique grooves also decorate the top of the bow. The bow is sub-triangular in cross-section and the apex is grooved, with very fine obliqe lines on the inner face of the groove forming a her…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Sunday 13th October 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-195260
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy enamelled Roman disc brooch dating from about AD 80 - 250. The disc is flat (1.8mm thick) and is decorated with a six-pointed star around a single copper alloy pellet of reserved metal. The points of the star each terminate in a rounded knop. The area inside the star surrounding the inner pellet contains red enamel. The area between the star and the outside edge has lost all its enamel. Two projecting perforated lugs support the copper alloy axis bar and the spring of the pin, though the shaft of the pin is missing. The catchplate is visible at the opposite ed…
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-349BCC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the trumpet type, dating from AD 75 - 175. The remaining portion consists of a short section of the bow and the oval shaped trumpet head. The bow is triangular in oval in section with a projecting ridge along the front. This ridge continues over the trumpet head, ending at the projecting knop at the place where a head loop would be usually found. The trumpet is oval and is not decorated. The reverse of the head is concave and has a broken loop which would have held the pin mechanism. The remainder of the bow, the foot, the catch plate …
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-6FC8E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the bow and fantail type, dating from AD 50 - 150. The bow is plain, as are the short, rectangular wings. The triangular fantail is decorated with a raised copper alloy motif of a double-ended scroll topped with a lozenge (an inverted pelta with tendrils below an open lozenge). The recesses of the design on the tail carry traces of red enamel and traces of silvering survive on the front of the brooch. An integral head loop remains in place on the upper edge of the wings and the reverse of the wings is tubular, notched in the centre to take a hinged …
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 19th September 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-708523
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A cast, copper alloy Roman plate brooch of the zoomorphic 'horse and rider' type, dating from about AD 200 - 410. It consists of a horse and rider, galloping to the right and seen in profile. The rider sits upright (leaning backwards slightly) and his leg is angled forwards. There are cells for enamel on the rump and withers of the horse and on its flanks, both before and behind the rider's leg. There are also enamelled cells on the body and leg of the rider. Traces of enamel remain in some of the cells; some is red and some blue, but it is not clear whether the colours have changed i…
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-9650A0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch, dating from AD 75 - 175. In the centre of the bow is a moulding consisting of a circular collar, flanked above and below by three teardrop shaped knops forming the acanthus decoration, with the rounded end of the teardrops pointing towards the collar. Adjacent to the pointed ends of each set of teardrops are three raised, circular ridges in low relief, two narrow and a broader central ridge, all separated by narrow grooves. The circular foot also has a ridge, flanked by narrow grooves and the base of the foot is dished, with a prominent centra…
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-9225BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A cast, copper alloy, disc brooch dating from the Roman period, about AD 80 - 250. It is circular and flat, decorated with enamel. A dot of copper alloy at the centre is surrounded by a red enamelled stardesign of six points, each arm with concave sides. There is a disc of copper alloy at the end of each point. The background is deep blue enamel. On the reverse is a pair of copper alloy lugs supporting a copper alloy axis bar of the same patination, and, a broken catchplate. There is the remains of a copper alloy sprung pin, of a different patination, and probably a different composit…
Created on: Monday 11th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-71AE27
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman disc brooch dating from the second century AD. The brooch is circular but the pin fixings project at each end, making it 24.6mm long, 18.6mm wide and 3.4mm thick. Part of one pin lug survives, but the pin and most of the mechanism is missing. The front of the brooch is decorated with enamel and is divided into four concentric circles. The centre is filled with enamel that may originally have been red. The next cell may have contained yellow enamel. The enamel survives but the colour has faded. The next cell is red enamel, and the outer one contains seven equally sp…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-305A55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative, rear hook brooch, dating from AD 43 - 65. It has a plain humped, tapering bow and only one short wing surviving, concave on the reverse to take the pin mechanism. The remaining wing is decorated with a diagonal ridge across the front and a raised border at the outer edge. There is a slight crest on the head of the bow which may have once been a hook for an external chord. The pin mechanism is missing, but the remains of a catch plate are still in place at the lower end of the bow. The brooch has a smooth, dark green patina. It is…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Sunday 13th October 2019
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Record ID: LIN-9C4EC0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy headstud brooch of Roman date. The wings are rectangular and each is decorated with six inward pointing triangular cells filled with red enamel,. The cells are set in two rows of three. Behind the wings is a cylinder containing an axis bar for a hinged pin. Part of the pin survives. The bow is comma shaped and rectangular in section. An enamelled ring is located at the top. Below this are two rows of inward pointing triangular cells of red enamel. Lozenge shaped cells of blue enamell run down the centre between. A catchplate is located on the revers…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: LIN-6425DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy headstud type brooch, dating to the period c. AD 75-200. The brooch comprises the head, wings, bow, foot and catchplate but is missing the pin. An upwards projecting circular loop is present at the head, with a free-moving oval loop attached to it. The wings are short and D shaped in cross section, with each flat front terminal exhibiting two longitudinal moulded lines set between three grooves. The reverse has a central gap between the wings to accomodate the pin, and a circular transverse aperture to accomodate the axis bar runs through both wings and is v…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
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