Record ID: OXON-BE89BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Rosette or Fantail/Rosette  derivative brooch dating to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD (c. 43-200 AD).  The spring and pin are missing. The brooch is a flat plate shaped like a Rosette and has cells for enamel consisting of three concentric circles, each with a raised band, thus enclosing recesses in which there are the remains of enamel. The central recess is now empty and hollow (possibly a variant of Hattatt's 'Keyhole' type Rosette brooch) with a wider band surrounding it. The two outer re…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-7EF0BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman Colchester derivative brooch of Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 4.g, flat wing ends type), dating to AD 160-200. The brooch is largely intact although the catchplate is damaged and the pin incomplete. The wings are semi-cylindrical in plan with pierced wing/end caps intact. The end caps extend slightly beyond the diameter of the wings. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The head has mouldings at either side where the wings extend, which along with the end caps is typical of the Polden Hill type. At the reverse of the …
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-19E105
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy finger ring dating from AD 43 - 300. The hoop is incomplete. It has a copper alloy niello setting acting as a bezel. The niello inlay is flush with the metal and is oval in plan. It is black or very dark brown. The hoop is oval in cross section and the shoulders taper away from the bezel, ending at worn breaks at the sides. The ring is 21.8mm long, 10.2mm wide and 12.9mm thick from the breaks to the front of the bezel. 4.7g. The internal diameter is about 17.4mm.  The finger ring fits into Guiraud's type 2, which she dates from the 1st to e…
Created on: Monday 27th September 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-31BBB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete corroded copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch of Mackreth type 1.3a2 . The trumpet-shaped head has faint remnants of symmetrical moulded flutes on its upper surface, now badly degraded by corrosion. A flat-sided axially aligned semi-circular loop projects from the back of the head, through which the axis bar of the spring passes, with several of the spring loops remaining coiled bilaterally; but the pin itself is now missing. Just below the shoulder of the bow there is an oval central knob, with two crescentic grooves on its underside, one on its lower upper-face, and single g…
Created on: Thursday 18th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 18th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8C4C7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large and heavy cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Hod Hill type. It is missing the head (patinated but not worn break) and some of the catchplate but is otherwise complete. The surviving part of the bow consists of a rectangular panel 23mm long, which tapers slightly downwards from 14mm wide at the top to 10.5mm wide at the bottom. It is decorated with a central vertical line and at least five horizontal or slightly sloping lines to either side (the slope is in a variety of directions). These lines are inlaid in places with a shiny grey material, either decomposed niello or silv…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: HESH-6C7EF9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill type brooch of Roman date (80-120 AD). The wings are complete with flat and pierced end cap. The axis bar, spring and pin are all lost; the spring would have been secured by an external chord which was fixed to a rearward facing hook positioned at the midpoint on the upper edge of the reverse. The head of the brooch bow is hump like - being comma shaped in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It extends to a rounded 'bun shaped' foot with a projecting knop. The catch-plate is formed from a rib on the rear o…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'worfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-55B1CF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman (AD 43-70) copper alloy Hod Hill brooch without side lugs, The strong cross-moulding above the bow, may indicate an early date. of Mackreth 2011, Chapter 6, Part 2 HOD HILL 10.c, Plate 97. It may have silver/ tin inlay along the bow. It is missing the curl of the catchplate and the pin. The wingspan is 12.9mm, the wings curling forward to hold the missing iron axis bar (now surrounded by iron corrosion). A notch between the wings would have been for the head of the pin. In front of the wings is a prominent transverse rib of triangular cross-section. Beyond the b…
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-22271D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable strap fitting of uncertain date, possibly Roman, c. AD 43-410. The object comprises of a flat rectangular plate of copper alloy, with a slight knop at its terminal. At the attachment end a pair of V-shaped grooves define a transverse collar, with a second corresponding pair below, just above the mid-point, helping to define a sub-circular boss. This is engraved with a lozenge containing a pellet, with the channels inlaid with niello. The rectangular field below the boss is decorated with two parallel rectangular, niello inlaid channels, with each containing a zig-zag left r…
Created on: Friday 19th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: BERK-10E81A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy, collard bi-conical decorated Roman hair pin head, probably c. 50 - 400 AD. Only the pin head now remains. The top of the head has incised groves at the quadrants with a dot in each space. The lower surface has a circumferential ring of dots at its outer edge and a collar leading to the circular form shaft (now missing). There are blackened remnants of what may have been has a silvered niello surface but the piece is much abraded, leaving a light green patina
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2017
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Record ID: SOM-92FF34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An extremely small Roman copper alloy sprung knee brooch, probably dating to c. AD 150-250 with possible silver or niello inlay. The head of the brooch is sub-rectangular in plan and longitudinally convex, the line of the head in profile following the curve of two integral sub-circular pierced lugs on the reverse of the head, these positioned in line with the edges of the head. On the right, where the lug survives to its original edge, it expands back 5.6mm. Between the head and lugs is a cylindral recess open to the reverse and bottom. Within this recess is an in situ copper alloy ax…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-D47B23
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy button and loop fastener of Roman date, c. AD 50 - 200. The head is a pointed ovate ring with an integral raised circular boss within to one side. A shank extends straight down from the reverse of the boss and bends at 90 degrees before terminating in a worn break. The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The button and loop fastener is 21.5mm long, 12.7mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 4.2g. Button and loop fasteners such as this are of Wild's type Va and date to the late 1st to 2nd century AD.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E362FA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver developed crossbow brooch of Bayley and Butcher (2004) type T192. The crossbar, axis bar and pin are missing, broken at the end of the highly arched pentagonal-sectioned bow. The bow becomes abruptly circular-sectioned with a collar before the foot-plate, which is straight sided, bevelled on either edge with a single transverse rib and a pair of ribs at the upper end and two pairs of transverse ribs at the lower end. The sides of the sheath catch-plate have broken flush with the reverse of foot, with only the blunt terminal of the catch-plate surviving. The upper …
Created on: Wednesday 15th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4103E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Hod Hill or derivative bow brooch. It is missing part of the head and the pin due to old breaks, but is otherwise complete. The head is flat, rectangular in form and rolled forwards to hold in plce the now missing axis bar. At the centre of the head is a rectangular slot through which the now missing pin would have originally hinged. The head narrows towards its base and has a collar formed from two prominent transverse notched ribs positioned at the juncture of head and bow. Beneath the collars extend the bow. This is flat, oval (leaf shaped) in form,…
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-4C28F8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy rectangular mount of probable Roman date, AD 43 - 410. It is a long recatngular piece of copper alloy with nine rivet holes; three in a line at each end, and three in a line across the centre. Four of the copper alloy rivets survive. They have flattened rounded heads. The mount is decorated with four panels containing U shaped recesses arranged in pairs facing each other. between the panels and on the ourside of the panels are strips inlaid with niello and decorated with a wavy line. The metal has a patchy green colour with areas of red metal showing. The mount is 61…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: SUR-32E11E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn cast copper alloy of uncertain date or original extent. The object is rod-like, straight and slightly tapering, and 30mm long. The section is triangular and towards one end each facet has a groove which runs from the centre towards the present break. Each groove is infilled with the remains of a niello or silver inlay. The object is too corroded and incomplete to suggest a date or purpose although it appears to be ancient.
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 17th February 2015
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Record ID: WMID-3F4873
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill (Mackreth Class 4, flat wing ends), Mackreth 2011, 4.g.Plate 47. Of Roman date AD 80 to AD 120. Approximately 25% of the brooch is present, consisting of the head and part of the bow. The wings, foot, spring, pin and catch plate are missing, presumably lost in antiquity. In plan, the brooch is almost T-shaped, and D-shaped in cross section. The bow head is hump-like, and angular (comma shaped) in profile. Both cylindral wings are missing. The bow has been decorated with a central groove, a ridge to either side and then…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A286F4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy military apron mount with, on the reverse, an integral rivet at the upper end, and a pointed tongue at the lower, above a globular terminal. The front is decorated with an apparently symmetrical motif which would probably have been inlaid with niello. Surface pitting has partly obscured details of the design. The form is very close to that of a larger example from Longthorpe (Goodburn, R. in Frere and St. Joseph 1974, 53, fig. 29 no. 45) Length 46.3mm. Width 10mm. Thickness at mid point 2.1mm. Thickness at terminal 7.7mm. c.43 - c.100.
Created on: Monday 18th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2015
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Record ID: NARC-40B3F3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy strap-mounted and skirted terret of early Roman date. The terret is comprised of a large oval sectioned hoop which is inlaid on both sides with approximately 35 square cells infilled with niello. Globular collars sit at the join etween the hoop and the bulbous upper section of the skirt. the skirt is made up of two triangular fared downward pointing projections. A copper-alloy loop sits inside the skirt. The hoop is 47mm in diameter and is 8mm at its widest and 4.5mm thick. The hoop has an uneven inner diameter and thickness due to advanced wear. The collars a…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Record ID: SF-BCB2B5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy military harness pendant of Roman date. It comprises a rectangular attachment plate that is D-shaped in section with raised central transverse rib. The rib is decorated with a series of three cross saltire motifs that has central pellets and are separated by vertical grooves, traces of inlaid niello suggesting they all originally contained niello. The remains of an added white metal coating is visible on the front face of the attachment plate, while the back face is undecorated but has at each end single integrally cast cylindrical rivets with slightly flattened he…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thelnetham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-3DC457
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Roman (AD 100 - 250) copper alloy Trumpet Derivative brooch of the Alcester type, consisting of the head and top of the bow only. It measures 18.41mm in length and weighs 3.56g. The trumpet-head measures 10.68mm wide and is D-shaped to the reverse. A loop extends above from a rectangular platform with a 2.17mm diameter piercing. To the sides D-shaped backwards-facing lugs hold an intact axis bar with four coils around. The two central-most have broken, giving two groups of two coils. From one extends the top of the shank of the pin c.3mm in length. To the front the he…
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wroughton', grid reference and parish protected.