Find Spot record 1080/0/55 - Roman Brooch from Middlewich

<1> Penny S, Various, Portable Antiquities Voluntary Recording Scheme Recording Form, 1998 (Paper Archive). SCH4332.

Bronze trumpet brooch with characteristic waist-knob. Catch plate and pin missing. Three petal shaped blue enamel cells decorate the trumpet end. AD 2nd century. 37mm long x 10mm wide. Found April 1998 with a metal detector .

<2> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

Characteristic waist knob. Catchplate and pin missing. Three petal-shaped blue enamel cells decorate the trumpet head.
Trumpet type
Date: from Circa 43 AD (Certain) to Circa 200 AD (Certain)
Period: ROMAN
Broad Period:
Method of manufacture: Cast
Surface treatment: Enamel
Length: 37 mm
Width: 10 mm
Preservation: corroded
Completeness: Incomplete

Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Recorded by: Nick Herepath
Primary Identifier: Stephen Penney
Subsequent action: Returned to finder.
County: CHESHIRE
District: CONGLETON
Parish: MIDDLEWICH
Location description: Field immediately to the south of Harbutt's Field which is the site of a Roman fort. Now built over by housing development.
Known as: CHESHIRE MIDDLEWICH
General landuse: Other
Specific landuse: Built over
PAS notes: Recorded 14.4.98 by Stephen Penney