Record Details

NHER Number:29806
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman brooch

Summary

Metal detecting in 1993 recovered a Roman enamelled copper alloy brooch in the form of a sitting cockerel.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 12 43
Map Sheet:TG14SW
Parish:WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

March/April 1993. Metal detecting.
Bronze Roman sitting cockerel-shaped brooch; hinged pin broken. Three-dimensional body with raised tail. Back decorated with enamel. Necklet of five yellow triangles. Wings decorated with yellow and blue enamel. Eye of concentric moulded circles.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 June 1993.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: LFT 1-4, Romano British cock brooch..
---Photograph: 1993. LFD 4-5, Romano British brooch..

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