Romano-Celtic gilt silver wheel brooch
1st-2nd century AD
Diameter: 3 cm
A wheel or spiked-disc brooch of a type found across Celtic Europe. Six spokes radiate from a central raised boss. The flat panel of the outer rim decorated with an incised scallop motif. The whole surface gilded. On the reverse the pin and clasp remain intact across the diameter of the brooch.
Condition: Intact; some gilt has been rubbed off with age
Literature: For very similar brooches see R. Hattatt, 'Iron Age and Roman Brooches' (Oxford, 1985), pp. 150-152.
Provenance: Found near Swindon late 1980s; collection of Mark Mailard; collection of David Winter, acquired c. 2000
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1st-2nd century AD
Diameter: 3 cm
A wheel or spiked-disc brooch of a type found across Celtic Europe. Six spokes radiate from a central raised boss. The flat panel of the outer rim decorated with an incised scallop motif. The whole surface gilded. On the reverse the pin and clasp remain intact across the diameter of the brooch.
Condition: Intact; some gilt has been rubbed off with age
Literature: For very similar brooches see R. Hattatt, 'Iron Age and Roman Brooches' (Oxford, 1985), pp. 150-152.
Provenance: Found near Swindon late 1980s; collection of Mark Mailard; collection of David Winter, acquired c. 2000
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1st-2nd century AD
Diameter: 3 cm
A wheel or spiked-disc brooch of a type found across Celtic Europe. Six spokes radiate from a central raised boss. The flat panel of the outer rim decorated with an incised scallop motif. The whole surface gilded. On the reverse the pin and clasp remain intact across the diameter of the brooch.
Condition: Intact; some gilt has been rubbed off with age
Literature: For very similar brooches see R. Hattatt, 'Iron Age and Roman Brooches' (Oxford, 1985), pp. 150-152.
Provenance: Found near Swindon late 1980s; collection of Mark Mailard; collection of David Winter, acquired c. 2000