Record ID: DENO-701830
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Derby
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy disc brooch with niello inlay, mid-late 1st century. Flat circular disc with with six evenly spaced flat rounded projections from the edge (one broken off); central raised pellet with depressed circle around (possibly a champleve enamel cell, no traces of enamel remain); then a neillo plain line border surrounded by a ring of twenty-one inlaid niello outward-pointed drop-shapes, all surrounded by a plain double-line border. The copper alloy pin is held in a double lug hinge with copper alloy bar; the tip of the pin is damaged, as is the hook of the rectangular projec…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chellaston', grid reference and parish protected.