Record Details

NHER Number:20463
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Roman disc brooch

Summary

A Roman copper alloy and enamelled disc brooch was found here by metal detecting. The brooch has an outer ring of blue and green enamel, an inner ring of red enamel and the central ring was empty.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 23 03
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:CAISTOR ST EDMUND, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Part of large scatter NHER 29994.

1982 to 1983. Metal detecting in ploughsoil.
In field north of Roman town.
Disc brooch of copper alloy with three concentric circles of enamelled cells. Outer blue and green, middle red, inner empty.
Information from [1].
A. Gregory (NAU), 8 June 1984.

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

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Related records

29994Part of: Roman settlement around walled town (Monument)
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