The panel has three plain ridges alternated with notched ridges, a pair of side lugs at the bottom. Rolled plate at head to create a hinge, the foot is triangular with pair of notches and flat knop terminal. Pin missing, the surface with a blue-green patina, with traces of tinning remaining.
Hod Hill type brooches are often found on military sites and tend to date to just after the Roman conquest of Britain.
Provenance
Patrick John Casey (1935-2016), Durham, UK
Casey was a staff member in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University 1972-2000, during which time he
participated in several archaeological excavations at the Roman forts of Brecon Gaer, Segontium, the Roman town of
Venta Silurum, the Roman temple at Lydney and the Greta Bridge vicus in County Durham. He was a Romanist and
numismatist, publishing several books on the subject.
Literature
A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt’s Ancient Brooches (Oxford, 1981), no.848
