NHER 33612 (Find Spot record) - Roman brooch and other multi period metal finds

April 1998. Metal detecting find. Context 2 at location [1].
Recovered a beautiful Colchester one-piece brooch. Rectangular-section wings, decorated on front with three vertical grooved mouldings. On reverse is a neat pin spring (half missing) and a forward-facing hook which curves down over the top of the bow to end in a disc decorated with a punched circle. Bow is fairly wide and flat and decorated with a wide central groove with two zig-zag mouldings within. No foot knob. Remains of perforated catchplate on reverse with rocker-arm decoration. Roman 1st century AD in date.
See (S1) no.753 for a similar example.
A polaroid photograph of this find is held by NCM.
A.Rogerson (NLA) 27 May 1998.

February 1999. Metal detecting at Context 1 at location [2].
A selection of finds recovered from here including Roman coins, a medieval belt mount and post medieval hooked tag.
See lists in file with grid references.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 2 April 1999.

April - May 2008. Metal detecting.
Three medieval metal objects.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 2 June 2008.