Record ID: HAMP-9C9096
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete Roman cast disc brooch of 2nd-century date. This flat brooch has an annular body with circular open centre (Dia.: 6.2mm). At the compass points are four protrusions which have suffered differing levels of abrasion. On the lower surface on the two opposing and more complete protrusions are, respectively, the remnant of the catchplate and the perforated, semi-circular pin lug. Within the latter are the corroded remains of the axis bar and possibly the beginnings of an iron pin, the rest of which is now missing. The more complete protrusions are divided from the m…
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heytesbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-311757
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 2nd century cast copper alloy disc brooch. The brooch is flat and circular. The surface has largely been lost due to wear and corrosion. The front of the brooch has been decorated with a ring and dot in the centre with lines radiating out from the centre. These fields then appear to have been inlaid with enamel, must of the enamel has now been lost. On the reverse of the brooch are the remains of two widely spaced lugs, they survive as stumps of corroded metal on either edge of the disc. The brooch is a dark brownish-green colour. It is pitted and corroded. This type of brooch dat…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manningford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-163D71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy dragonesque plate brooch, measuring 42.4x22.6x1.9mm and weighing 7.18g. It is of the unenamelled type. The brooch is apparantly complete though a little worn on its terminals (head and foot). It is in the form of an S-shaped plate with the head and foot forming the top and bottom of the S. The decoration is at the cente of the body and comprises a grooved-ring-and-pierced-dot. The brooch is slightly rounded on both sides except for the reverse of the central part of the body, which is hollowed. This also has a little iron staining. The head comprises a brow …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-F98138
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Colchester one-piece type, dating to the 1st century AD The brooch is near-complete, missing the catch-plate, but has very poor surface preservation. The brooch has a length of 46.44mm and has a weight of 6.1g. The spring survives, but has broken on the outer coil. The spring has a width of 14.66mm and coils three times each side of the centre. The spring diameter is considerably wider on the pin side, than the other (7.6mm diameter compared to 5.1mm diameter). The chord is anchored at the head by a tapering forward-facing hook. …
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-FBA826
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Colchester one-piece type, dating to the 1st century AD The brooch is near-complete, missing the catch-plate and the end of the pin. The brooch has a distorted length of 48.00mm and has a weight of 7.9g. The spring survives, but has broken on the outer coil. The spring has a width of 15.38mm and coils three times each side of the centre. The spring diameter is slightly wider on the pin side, than the other (6.7mm diameter compared to 6.2mm diameter). The chord was anchored at the head by a tapering forward-facing hook, which is n…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: WILT-742C35
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman T-shape brooch of the enamelled type, missing loop, lower bow and catchplate, the stem of the pin and the enamel decoration. It weighs 5.29g and is 28.9mm in incomplete length. The wings are tubular with a hinged pin and span 26.2mm. Only the head of the pin survives in situ. A double groove flanks each open end of the wings, to the front only. The bow is flat and 11mm wide where it extends from the wings. Slightly off-centre at the top of the bow is a broken projection from which the loop would have extended. The upper bow has a groove flanking b…
Created on: Friday 13th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-748CF1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester one-piece type brooch, missing its pin and most of the catchplate. The brooch measures 70mm in length and weighs 15.12g. The wingspan is 14.5mm although the span of the spring is 22.7mm. The spring consists of 7 coils, the eight presumably being the pin (and now missing). The wings are flat in section and c.1.5mm thick. The chord is held in place above the spring with a forward facing hook. The bow extends from the top of the wings and is oval in section, measuring 6.8x4.5mm. It curves outwards before dropping, tapering all the while to a …
Created on: Friday 13th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-74C8E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy plate brooch of the bridge type, missing its spring, pin, lower projection and catchplate and some enamel decoration. It measures an incomplete 26mm in length and weighs 4.29g. It would have originally measured c.33mm in length. The surviving upper projection has a single pierced lug to the reverse for a spring attachment. Hattatt comments that this particular type of brooch is particular to Britain, and that the only six known examples are all from the south (Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts, 1989, p.148). One other has been recorded from Wiltshire…
Created on: Friday 13th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-769912
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy gilt disc brooch of the gilded Glass centre-boss type, missing its central setting and with its catchplate and hinge mechanism filed down on the reverse. It has had two perforations made through the centre(rivet holes?), c.2-3mm in diameter. Part of the edge is also missing (old damage) around the filed hinge mechanism, and the metal has split to the front (possibly as a result of filing?). The brooch measures 28.7x30x2mm and weighs 5.31g. The gilding survives in two 1.7mm wide C-shaped grooves either side of the central (missing) setting. The groove…
Created on: Friday 13th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-CBE3B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Trumpet brooch, c.1st-2nd century AD, of copper alloy with a corroded spring. Broken above the central bow button and missing the pin. The brooch weighs 5.7g and measures 30mmx15mm. The head is oval with a flat plate behind the trumpet head which extends up to form a chain loop directly above a laterally grooved rectangular section. Midway on the upper bow is a pair of chevron lentiod mouldings. This brooch is similar to Hattatt (1989) 954. The upper bow is roughly circular in cross section.
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-CCA397
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 2.b1, enamelled panel on upper bow, lenticular elements cast below,flat wing ends type). The wingspan is 27.2mm and the circular closed ends extend beyond the wings thickness, appearing to the front as raised ribs. Otherwise the wings are plain. Both circular ends have an area of iron corrosion, suggesting the axis bar was iron. To the reverse, an ?eight coiled spring sits in the hollowed wings (c-shaped in section). A forward-facing hook holds the cord in place at the top of t…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: WILT-CD6A27
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman trumpet brooch of copper alloy with hinge mechanism, missing the pin and most of the catchplate. This is also broken halfway down the lower bow. The brooch weighs 12.4g. The length of the brooch from the top of the loop to the break in the lower bow measures 41mm and the rest of the lower bow measures 25mm. The solid cast loop extends directly above two lateral bands. The wings are tubular and the wingspan measures 21mm although the left hand side has an old break to it. The bow extends from the head and would have been D-shaped in cross section. There is a v…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-0A4277
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Headstud brooch consisting of the wings, upper bow and spring mechanism only. The incomplete brooch is 19.8mm long and weighs 7.80g. The wings, which are rectangular in section and angular, are 23mm wide. Part of the cord and foward facing hook survive on the top of the wings. To the reverse, an eleven-coiled spring survives, the pin is missing. The wings are decorated to the front with two pairs of vertical lines on either side of the bow. The bow extends from the wings to the front, but also from the top of the wings. The bow is rectanglar in secti…
Created on: Friday 20th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-0B0373
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy T-shape brooch possibly of the Sawfish type, missing its lower bow and catchplate, spring, cord and pin. Its incomplete length is 22.8mm and it weighs 5.30g. The wingspan is 23.4mm. They are C-shaped in section with a double pierced lug at the centre. The axis bar remains in situ in the lower piercing. To the front the wings are decorated with a wide rounded rib flanking the open end, flanked on the inside edge with a pair of thinner ribs. The bow extends from the top of the wings. The top of the double-pierced lug extends into the bow to create a ra…
Created on: Friday 20th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-8A0038
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman T-shaped copper alloy brooch of 1st-2nd Century AD with spring mechanism and catchplate but without the pin. This object appears to be gilded but it is the copper alloy showing through from underneath due to cleaning. It weighs 7.3g and measures 44mm in length and 18mm across the wingspan. There is a central ridge which extends from the top of the bow to the foot but otherwise there is no decoration anywhere else. Part of the right hand side wing has been damaged and the spring mechanism on this side has been bent away from the wing. The spring mechanism is the Colche…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
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Record ID: WILT-F52C74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman bow brooch consisting of the lower bow and catchplate, probably of Dolphin type from 1st century AD. The bow is oval in cross section with a triangular catchplate. The external face of the bow is undecorated. The catchplate has single circular hole in the centre. It measures 31mm in length and 13mm in width. It weighs 4g.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-F57031
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman bow brooch, probably of the dolphin type c.1st century AD. The fragment consists of the lower bow and the catchplate. The lower bow tapers to a point at the bottom and is undecorated on the external facing. The fragment has a shiny green patina. The catchplate is triangular. It measures 53mm in length and 22mm in width. It weighs 3.1g.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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Record ID: WILT-F58C06
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy brooch, possibly a trumpet brooch dating to 1st-2nd century AD, consisting of the lower bow which has been broken away from the upper bow above the button, foot and catchplate. The brooch is plain and undecorated apart from two ridges in the centre of the button however these are very worn. The catchplate is triangular and the lower bow gradually narrows towards the foot. It is 21mm in length and 8mm wide. The foot extends 3mm in front of the bow. It weighs 2.9g.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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Record ID: WILT-F5C2A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch of 1st-2nd century AD. The brooch is missing its button, lower bow, foot and catchplate. However it does have the part of the pin, although slightly bent, and the tubular hinge mechanism which is the full width of the head. The head is semi circular and is slightly concave with the beginning of the chain loop apparent. There is a central ridge running from the base of the head to the first lateral ridge which would have been above the central button. It is 27mm in length and 19mm in width. It weighs 4.9g. cf. Hattatt (1989) 96…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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Record ID: WILT-83CBF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy brooch of 1st century AD probably of the Colchester type. The brooch consists of the bow which tapers to a point and the catchplate. The brooch has a shiny green patina. The length of the bow is decorated with wavy lines in sunk relief cf. Hattatt (1989) 253,254,255. The edges of the bow are rounded with the back of the bow remaining undecorated. The bow is a thin oval in cross section with the catchplate being almost rectangular in shape. The brooch is 31mm in length and weighs 1.5g.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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