Any ideas please!!

[hoover-G]

Out today braving the rain and managed too winkle these 2 items out! Stunning brooch with some colour and some sort off seal and Isit me or does that look like the grim reaper 

[Val Beechey]

The brooch looks more like a button and a very nice one too. And yes, that certainly looks like the Grim Reaper and have you noticed his sands of time thingy at the right hand side. It seems to be a livery button but it's a very unusual design. Creepy.

Val

[hoover-G]

Thanks val I'm certain it's a disc brooch and yes the reaper 1 had me looking afew times when I unearthed it. Does look more like a seal as the back looks like what's left off 1 or fob. 

[Val Beechey]

How big is the Grim Reaper.  On closer inspection it looks like it might have been in a seal. The design would make more sense I it was.  Maybe the Hangman  

Val

[Val Beechey]

Ha   there you go then.  Great minds think alike.  Wonder who it belonged to. Had a funny sense of humour.  Maybe the local Doc 

Val

[hoover-G]

There you go val  

[Val Beechey]

Just proves it's the angle of the dangle that counts.  Perfectly clear now George. A very nice round brooch and the top off a seal.
Two very nice and unusual finds.

Val

[hoover-G]

Haa certainly is val!! I gotta give the new coil ago sometime I keep telling myself too 

[Resurgam]

Is that the grim reeper, or is it father time? Perhaps they are one and the same? Maybe it depends on one's point of view when he comes a knocking! 

[Chef Geoff]

Father Time Chris as he has wings the Grim Reaper is robed at least that's what google says
Lovely brooch HG 2nd century disc brooch Hattatt 552, great to see it still has good enamel in the cells the in between cells would once have probably been red

[Val Beechey]

Seems The Grim Reaper and Father Time are one and the same from what I've read. I also found the attached. Not identical but similar and interesting. Shame the document seems to be written in Latin. But I wondered if it was a will or maybe a death sentence.   Don't you just love a find like this.  Scroll down the page a bit, past the adverts.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1695-GRIM-REAPER-FATHER-TIME-WAX-SEAL-17th-c-document-SUPER-RARE-POSSIBLY-UNIQUE-/161524996389?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item259ba3d925&nma=true&si=yLd3xgvVaEuR62czB3wZCFgiCNI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Val

[hoover-G]

Thanks all  what date would you say it was!! Thanks geoff on ID il clean crud of shortly and I know there's red under there somewhere 
And who would have thought ayy I was cleaning my finds pouch getting rid off the scrap and this thing was in there too! silvered in places" my first thoughts was strap-end  that's slight bent but now I'm guessing it's a hinged brooch. Can't believe I miss placed him nearly went out with the scrap 

[marknewbury1]

Well done cracking unusual finds

[hoover-G]

Best I could do on bringing the red through 

[Chef Geoff]

That shows it up nicely George great to see one 99% complete Your "Scrap bucket brooch" is certainly a 1st century Aucissa brooch and going by the thickness of the metal I would say it's likely to be a Hod hill type but without the bottom part I can't be sure