Findspot - Roman brooches

1 Two brooches. Large and clumsy examples of a fairly rare type. The two really distinctive features are a ‘plate’ on either side of the head of the brooch which is only visible from the side and masks the junction of the bow with the wings. Another feature is the knob on the foot. The spring arrangement is as in the Polden Hill type, that is, the spring held in position by an axis pin passing through pierced plates at the ends of the wings and ths coils of the spring.
3 A card from the old SMR records that these were found in 1954 in the region of Blacklands at the S end of Bleachfield Street, near the above grid reference.
4 Reference 3 requires checking.