Find Spot record MDO47536 - Iron Age pottery and Roman brooch, Long Bredy

Late Iron Age pottery and a brooch found at Long Bredy. The exact findspot is not known.

A bead-rim bowl and two dishes, of IA. `e` period, and a Ro. pen-annular brooch; found together about 1880 at LONG BREDY, but the circumstances and site have not been recorded. Late 1st c. Acc. No. 1880.1.1-4. <1> No further information was obtained during field investigation. <2> A small bronze ring fibula, found in November, 1857, at Long bredy, Dorsetshire was exhibited to the Archaeological Institute, May 7th, 1852 by the Rev C W Bingham. It is of the pen-annular form, the ends where the ring is disunited are re-curved, and represent heads of animals, possibly of serpents. This ornament is probably of Roman workmanship. A silver fibula (in Mr. Whincopp`s museum) of the same type, retained in mediaeval times, is engraved in the Journal. (Name centred SY 5668 9080). <3-4> No further information was obtained during field investigation, and the present location of this fibula was not determined. <5>

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