Record ID: NCL-D28051
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description of Object Fragment of silver trumpet brooch, with only the head and part of the bow surviving. There are traces of copper from the spring, which is missing, alongside the lower part of the bow, foot and catchplate. There are a series of complex mouldings on the bow, which include an acanthus flower with five-petals. There are a series of transverse grooves within circular bands on either side of the acanthus flower; the head is plain. Date: 2nd century AD Discussion These types of brooch with acanthus …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-609BF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast silver Aesica-type trumpet brooch of the Roman period, dating from the 1st-late 2nd century. The brooch is largely complete, missing its pin, its foot, and part of its catchplate. The brooch is in good condition and retains much of its decoration. The flat headplate is cast hollow-back and is semi-circular in plan. The headloop remains intact and complete on the flat upper edge of the headplate. The bow attaches to the lower, curved-edge half of the headplate, and the upper headplate has a rectangular panel distinguished by a raised upper and lower line. The bow …
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2012
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Record ID: LIN-DC82A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Polden Hill brooch. The brooch has semi-cylindrical wings in cross-section. The pin is missing. The wings are short and the terminals are missing. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section and decorated with two narrow channels down the centre. The catchplate is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LIN-DC8B67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Polden Hill brooch. The brooch has semi-cylindrical wings in cross-section. The pin is missing. The wings are short and the terminals are missing. The bow is oval in cross-section and decorated at the top with a slightly raised triangular panel pointing down towards the centre of the bow. The catchplate is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-21F736
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case : 2009 T535 Roman brooch Date: 2nd Century A silver Roman knee brooch, dating to circa AD 150-250. The brooch has a P-shaped profile. The head is rectangular with two raised collars. On the reverse of the head there is a rectangular plate, which is pierced. This would have held the spring and the pin which are now both missing. The arch of the bow has a rounded top, with chamfered edges. The upper part of the bow is decorated on either side with three incised, diagonal lines. The spine of the bow is decorated with a raised vertical line with a series of parallel, horizon…
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2009
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-5A5922
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver crossbow brooch, broken and somewhat distorted, with only the bow and part of the head intact. The bow is ovate in profile, trapezoidal in section, and is decorated with a single lengthwise groove. On the head is a conical shaped knob with flat disc below. Part of one of the arms is intact, but the end knob is broken away, whilst the other arm, the foot and pin are all missing. Dates to the late 3rd/1st part of 4th century AD
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Firsby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-351AF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver-gilt brooch of Roman date. A 1st to 2nd century AD lugged lozengiform plate brooch of unusual composite construction. The decorative front plate has repoussé ornament comprising a petalled motif within a beaded border. Traces of gilding remain, especially near the centre. It was secured to the plain back-plate by small dome-headed rivets at the centre and in the four projecting lugs (those at top and bottom now lacking). The catchplate and hinged pin assembly, now broken at both ends, is held by the central rivet and, probably, by the missing rivets at the top and bottom of …
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hadham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-DE5A26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver omega brooch. 36mm long, 34mm wide and 8mm thick. The brooch weighs 16.9 grams and has a good silver patina, but needs cleaning. The brooch is pennanular in form, turning back on itself to form terminals. At this point it is circular in section and has barrel shaped terminals, 6 mm long and 5 mm in diameter, with three raised grooves. The main body of the brooch has a diamond section. The diamond section is made up of four main raised ridges, with extra ridges in between these on the outer sides. The surface of the brooch is decorated with incised lines, forming a herring …
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-036C34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the head of a trumpet brooch, of possibly poor grade silver. It has been further decorated with two silver studs one of which is now broken/missing. This type of brooch has a west midland distribution and dates to the first half of the second century (Donald F Mackreth)
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanion', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C4DAC5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Simple one piece-brooch, Nauheim-derivative type with a flat broadly ovoid bow, undecorated, made of sheet metal, which narrows to a wire that forms a simple loop and the pin, both of circular cross-section. The catchplate is missing. Discussion: the brooch is so small it seems unlikely to have had much practical use, suggesting it was produced for symbolic reasons. For discussion of brooches of this type see Bayley & Butcher 2004, 146-8. For a parallel, see Hattatt 1987, no. 737. Date: late first century BC to early first century AD Wt.: 1.42g L.: 26.2mm W.: 6.6mm …
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willinham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-741A8E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small silver dolphin brooch, two piece, originally with spring and pin but these are now missing. The bow is bulbous and narrows to a triangular foot, bent and broken. The catchplate is missing. The wings are broken, as is the backwards hook that would have held the spring in place. Discussion: for a parallel, see Hattatt 1987, no. 883. Date: mid first century AD Wt.: 2.39g L.: 21.2mm Hattatt, R., 1987. Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford. Note: this item is more than 300 years old and composed of more than 10% precious metal so qualifies as treasure as stipulated in the Trea…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: CAM-C5B072
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver bow brooch of Roman style. This brooch seems to have possibly been reformed for reuse from an earlier and larger bow brooch. The brooch weighs 2.52g and consists of a rectangular cross-section at the foot (width 2.9mm x 1.7mm thickness) which flares outwards to a width of 3.7mm and thickness of 1.6mm at a diatance of 25.0mm from the foot. The bow then bends over backwards and starts to taper at a distance of c.37.0mm from the foot and the cross-section gradually becomes sub-circular. The reverse half of the bend of the bow forms the brooch pin. The approximate juncture …
Created on: Monday 30th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CC00C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Roman crossbow brooch dating to the period c. AD 320 - 400. The head features a projecting rounded knop with a convex top and a short collared neck. The wings are D-shaped in cross-section with a flattened reverse. Each wing terminates in a circular knop. The wings house the iron axis bar for the hinged pin mechanism. Traces of iron corrosion are visible around the oval pin slot on the reverse of the bow. The pin is missing. The bow is steeply arched and has a faceted trapeziodal cross-section. At the top of the leg of the bow is a thin, lipped projection. The leg…
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-402151
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bow-and-fantail brooch of Roman date (AD 50-150). The brooch consists of a partial head, tapered body and pelta-shaped lunate terminal with integrally cast circular lozenges with inlaid possible enamel. The reverse is mooth and undecorated with a partial catchplate. The head, wings, spring, pin and partial catchplate are all missing due to an old break. The metal is a dark greenish orange in colour. The inlaid possible enamel is red in colour. No weight recorded. Hattatt, P 315, no 816.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
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Record ID: GLO-6D2FF9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch. Tubular wings hold the pin axis bar; there is a slot in the centre of the wings at the rear for the pin, only the loop of the pin remains. Flanking the head of the brooch on each side is an oval dome that is bisected by a transverse ridge. There is a moulded knee at the bows apex, and a narrow leg below, the catch plate on the reverse is truncated.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2018
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Record ID: GLO-A4D954
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Perrybrook, Gloucester (CA Project CR0070) Gilt silver brooch by E. McSloy Silver (with gilt surfaces) The single silver object, brooch Ra. 267, was a metal detector find from subsoil deposit 5001. It composition, of silver, with gilt surfaces was confirmed by xrf analysis undertaken by M. Dobby (Report in CA in archive), which also detected traces of mercury suggestive of mercury gilding. Ra. 267 is fragmentary, its foot, spring and one wing missing. In its form it conforms to the Colchester Derivative class, and probably of Mackreth’s ‘rearhook’ division a…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-F847B5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2020 T617. Description: A silver Colchester derivative brooch of Roman date, c.AD 25 - 60. The wings of the brooch are short and rectangular with a central, ovate sectioned forward-facing hook projecting from the upper edge. The hook curves round to sit on the upper bow with a flattened ovate terminal. The terminal is decorated with four transverse ridges, the upper and lower of which are ribbed. The reverse of the wings houses a single piece spring mechanism formed of an integral circular sectioned strip of silver wire. The wire projects centrall…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thormanby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-CB527E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman silver coated or possibly silver gilt brooch of rosette type, dating to AD 20-60. The brooch is a grey silver colour. The bow is triangular in shape or fantailed, it is decorated with a repeated square punch pattern, running in five separate lines, two along the edge. On the reverse of the bow at the wider edge is the catch plate which curves round to the left to hold the pin. At the narrow end of the bow is the rosette, this is held in place with a separate rivet. The rosette is circular, and in two sections. The first section is convex in shape, with a circu…
Created on: Thursday 24th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
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Record ID: PAS-5A5407
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The brooch, which has lost its pin, is formed by a penannular ring of circular section; diameter, 20 mm. The two ends are folded back on top of the ring, then shaped into simple animal head terminals with concave sides and chevron incisions forming the snout; at the neck end is a transverse groove and a pair of lateral nicks. The backs of the terminals, which slightly overlap due to compression, are plain and flat. The top and sides of the hoop are decorated towards the terminals with zones of transverse ribbing. Analysis: Surface metal analysis conducted by the Depart…
Created on: Friday 28th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-F7C7AF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2016 T58. An incomplete silver Trumpet brooch, found in two halves, of Roman date. UPPER HALF: The head of the brooch is sub-ovate with fresh breaks to either side and is decorated on the front surface with two deep semi-circular indentations close to the upper edge. The reverse is concave with no surviving pin mechanism though traces of copper corrosion are present. A circular sectioned bow extends centrally from the front of the head widening slightly in circumference to an elaborated circular acanthus moulding. The moulding is flanked by double banded circu…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.