Find Spot record 1080/0/60 - Roman find from Middlewich

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

Roman brooch or harness fitting. Bronze disc with dished upper surface and flat back. Partially tinned front surface outlines and circular central decoration consisting of a circle divided into 8 segments. Four lugs on reverse. 41mm diameter x 5mm thick. Found April 1998 with metal detector (1).

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

Bronze disc with dish-shaped upper surface and flat back. Partially tinned front surface outlines a circular decoration consisting of a circle divided into eight segments. Four lugs on reverse. Possibly a brooch or harness fitting.
Date: from 43 AD (Certain) to 410 AD (Certain)
Period: ROMAN
Broad Period:
Thickness: 5 mm
Diameter: 41 mm

Date found: 01 April 1998
Methods of discovery: Metal detector
Recorded by: Nick Herepath
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 by Stephen Penney 14.4.98