Record ID: NMGW-5BB671
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill/Transitional derivative, Grp.2.a (Mackreth 2011: Plate 45 Grp.2.a – no.1765) and of 1st or 4th century AD date. The brooch comprises the wings and bow, missing the foot, catchplate, spring and pin. The wings are broad (24.9mm wide) and almost flat, rising slightly to the centre where a thin chord hook/flap projects slightly towards the reverse. The wings are very slightly concaved in profile where the spring would have fit on the reverse, but is now missing. Each wing is each decorated on the front with a pair of incised ha…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-5B9CCA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of T-shaped type and of 1st-2nd century AD date. The brooch is comprised of the wings, head, bow and catchplate with most of the hinged pin lost to old damage. The wings are short, undecorated and cylindrical with a total width of 18.8mm and diameter of 4.1mm. The central axis bar perforates the wings and is made of iron. A fragment of the copper alloy hinge preserves in the pin slot. The head is squared off from the wings and begins in a moulded chevron (7.6mm wide). The bow is sub-oval in section, plain and undecorated and gently tapers t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-5B9923
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Trumpet Derivative type dating to the 2nd-3rd century AD. The fragmentary brooch is 50.7mm long comprising the lower part of of the head, bow, foot and catchplate, missing the head and spring. A circular disc with four projecting knops (max width 16.1mm) expands from the head with two concentric rings and a central flat pellet. The rings are recessed and filled with red enamel inlay (the outer ring has an external diameter of 14.6mm, inner ring 7.5mm external diameter). The leg of the brooch is decorated with a raised central strip and t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th January 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-FABB6A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of Birdlip type, dating from the Late Iron Age to Early Roman Period (c. 30BC-AD60). The brooch is largely complete, with at least remnants of every main part: the only missing parts are the majority of the hinged pin and the openwork catchplate, as well as several parts of the original surface, much of which is in the process of delaminating as a result of corrosion. This degradation in condition will continue without conservation. The head of the brooch has a convex outer surface and a flat reverse (interrupted by the hinge slot) with a width o…
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-BAB849
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill type (1st century AD). The brooch is fragmentary missing the leg and pin and spring (with a surviving length of 29mm). The spring would have fit inside the wings (which measure 29.3mm wide) and secured between perforated lateral lugs on each end. A hook at the top of the head, now damaged, would have secured the chord. The wings are expanded and angled to the rear. The sides of the head are decorated with a curved moulding (with a head width of 10.4mm) and continues down the bow before terminating in the break. The bow is D-shaped in sec…
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-BA8204
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester Derivative Polden Hill brooch of Roman date (c. 75-175 AD). The brooch is broken at the bow, missing the foot at the pin with an overall remaining length of 24.7g. A perforated lug or crest secures the chord of the spring at the top of the brooch. From the lug, a raised central ridge is flanked by uneven sub-rectangular mouldings measuring 7.6mm and 6.7mm in length before squaring off and continuing 8.3mm and squaring off again, forming two sub-rectangular sections/steps on the bow. The upper section measures 10mm wide and the lower 7mm wide.…
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-A95503
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary and distorted copper alloy Colchester Derivative Hinged brooch of Roman date (c. 43-120 AD). The brooch is largely missing, consisting only of one wing, most of the head, and part of the bow. The pin, foot, catchplate, and one wing along with part of the head are missing. The brooch is also distorted with the head bent slightly back, leaving the brooch almost flat. The remaining flattened oval sectioned wing is hollow, still containing the part of the axis bar, and is the thickest part of the brooch at 3.3mm. A central notch in the reverse of the wings would have …
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th November 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-A948C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Langton down brooch of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (c. 25-60 AD). The brooch is likely of Mackreth Type LD 3a (2011, Pg.34, plate 20, No 6484). The brooch consists of the intact bow with rounded foot, wings and spring. The pin has broken off just as it leaves the spring mechanism, and the openwork catchplate is evident only as two broken sheet stubs projecting from the back of the bow. The wings are nearly cylindrical and uneven, having been hammered thin and worked almost all the way around the top and bottom of the spring, which is still held…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-95626A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch of Chester Type variant dating to the late 1st-2nd century BC. The head of the brooch is sub-oval in plan with a flat border and measures 11.7mm wide. A small flat knop (4.1mm wide, 1.4mm thick) projects from the top of the head giving an overall head height of 13.3mm. The head is flat on the back with a spring and a broken pin coiled around a copper alloy axis bar secured by a D-shaped lug. The remaining pin is 34.0mm in length. The upper bow is sub-oval in plan and undecorated, projecting from the front of the head and tapering b…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-94E626
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch of Chester variant dating to the late 1st-2nd century AD. The head is oval in plan and measures 9.7mm wide and 9.0mm high. The head is flat on the reverse, missing the spring and pin, with a singe D-shaped lug containing the remains of a spring or pin (lug is 6.5mm high and 6.7mm wide with the spring fragment). The bow protrudes outwards from the head in a sub-oval flange and is flat on the reverse. A sub-pentagonal button (8.3mm wide, 5.5mm high) is moulded between two sets of transverse ribs above and below the button. The leg tape…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-818016
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Dragonesque type and of mid-1st to late-2nd century AD date. The Dragonesque brooch is missing one terminal with a max* surviving length of 41.5mm, max surviving width of 24.1mm, and weight of 8.70g. The brooch has the characteristic S-shaped form and the body is decorated with four sub-rectangular cells with two pairs of curvilinear cells above and below, curving up and narrowing to points towards each neck. The recessed cells contain alternating red and likely yellow enamel inlay. The head is decorated with recessed c…
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ED0B56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy continental plate brooch dating to the Roman period (c. 25-250 AD). The brooch is sub-curcular in form, with four lugs projecting from the edges at every 90 degrees, one of which is perforated to form a chain loop. The other three lugs are unperforated and decorated with a ring and dot. Only the lug backed by the catchplate is surviving, the rest are damaged. The front of the plate is decorated by a series of concentric raised circles. The two outermost circles are filled with a design of repeating pellets, these circles surround a deep groove around t…
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-6C5433
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy and enamel hinged Trumpet derivative brooch of Roman date (c. 75-200 AD). The brooch is most likely of Mackreth Type TR 4.1a (2011: pg.126, plate 86). The brooch is incomplete, missing the foot and much of the catchplate. The head of the brooch has sub-rectangular, irregular oval sectioned wings. The wings are hollow, and still contain the copper or copper alloy axis bar. The wings are decorated with two transverse grooves on either end. The pin is attached to the axis bar through a central slot in the reverse of the wings and has a small hooked in…
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-7817D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester Derivative Polden Hill brooch of Roman date. The brooch is broken at the bow, missing the foot and the pin. The rectangular (becoming D-shaped) sectioned bow has mouldings towards the head, the central notched ridge moulding rises to for a perforated lug (or crest as per Mackreth), that secured the chord of the spring. The wings asymmetrical in section, one being far thicker than the other are decorated with two ridged mouldings on either end, possibly as a result of a manufacturing error. Nonetheless, the brooch appears to have been functiona…
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-4DB531
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary copper alloy brooch dating to the Late Iron Age or Early Roman period (c. 50 BC to 70 AD). The brooch is a single fragment of the original object- the foot and pin are entirely absent, with only an incomplete section of bow and spring surviving. The bow is in the form of a strip ending in a transverse break, with parallel sides and small shoulders at the start of the spring. The outer surface of the bow has linear decoration. The remnant of the circular sectioned spring has a left handed twist, ending in a break at roughly 1 and 3/4 twist. While some diagnostic features …
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 24th August 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-A57A38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill type of 1st century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary missing the leg and pin (with a surviving length of 24mm) and one of the wing terminals (with a surviving width of 15mm). The spring would have fit inside the wings and secured between perforated lateral lugs on each end. A hook at the top of the head, now damaged, would have secured the chord. The surviving wing is expanded and angled to the rear. The sides of the head are decorated with a curved moulding (with a head width of 10.25mm) and continues down the bow before terminating i…
Created on: Monday 16th August 2021
Last updated: Monday 16th August 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-1156F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description The reported object is a small silver annular brooch (weight 1.49g.). The silver frame, which is of circular cross-section, is plain. The external frame diameter is 11.5mm; internal frame diameter 7.5mm. Both sides of the pin, which is of diamond cross-section, are engraved with a zig-zag line on each facet, with a transverse ridge at the junction of head and shaft. The head is simply wrapped around a cast restriction in the hoop, and its front is engraved with zig-zag decoration similar to the shaft. Overall pin length 12.55mm; hoop thickness 2-2.1mm Summary and…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-ECC274
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of late Roman or Early Medieval date. The brooch consists of the plate, knops, catchplate and hinge missing the pin. The plate is sub-quatrefoil in plan with four integrally cast knops. The knops are slightly raised from the plate and are sub-oval in plan (4.8mm long and 2.5mm wide) with thick collars across the width forming a globular head at the top of each knop (c.2mm thick). There is no visible evidence of surface decoration on the plate, so was likely plain and undecorated apart from the knops. The reverse is flat, plain and undecorat…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-C62467
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy button brooch of early early-medieval date (c. AD 480-550). The brooch is circular in plan and slightly trapezoidal in cross-section with an upturned rim angled slightly outwards. The brooch face is set within the rim and depicts a highly stylised anthropomorphic mask with a pellet border. The eyebrows rise from the straight nose (6mm long) and curve in sweeping arches to extend just below the eyes, which are each single small round pellets. Crescentic moulds beneath the eyes may represent rounded cheeks as seen in other examples (e.g. HAMP-A4B1AB) but …
Created on: Monday 12th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-3288EE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bow brooch of Early Medieval date (Early to Mid 5th century AD). The head and pin of the brooch are missing, but the remainder of the brooch is complete and in good condition, including the well-developed catchplate and disc shaped foot terminal. The bow is strongly curved and has an irregular pentagonal section, where the inner surface and sides of the bow are perpendicular to one another while the outer surface has two poorly defined facets. The top of the bow expands to form a roughly square section 4.6mm wide by 5.6mm high. The upper surface of this …
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 19th October 2023
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