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« on: April 22, 2015, 09:00:37 PM »
Chef can you please work you magic on this one for a friend of mine, any info would be great. Wink
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2015, 09:02:11 PM »
 Cheesy Here's the photos

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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2015, 09:07:22 PM »
That's a beauty!
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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2015, 09:43:21 PM »
What a little cracker, as good as the day it was made
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2015, 09:46:34 PM »
It will be nice when it's finished!
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« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2015, 09:55:02 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2015, 10:02:20 PM »
OMFG!!!!!!! I haven't heard of Bristol museum being broken it to lol. There certainly aren't many like that out there did he check for bones or ash? was it undone or fastened when found?
OK well the simple answer is "Not a scooby" well apart from being Polden hills so 1st century Huh It's certainly not a regular type (Hattatt) and I would even be tempted to say it's foreign except it looks very British and even copies some Colchester brooches in design BUT leave it with me, I haven't been beaten yet so I'll find it even if I have to invent a new type for it Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2015, 10:16:56 PM »
Quote from: Chef Geoff on April 22, 2015, 10:02:20 PM
OMFG!!!!!!! I haven't heard of Bristol museum being broken it to lol. There certainly aren't many like that out there did he check for bones or ash? was it undone or fastened when found?
OK well the simple answer is "Not a scooby" well apart from being Polden hills so 1st century Huh It's certainly not a regular type (Hattatt) and I would even be tempted to say it's foreign except it looks very British and even copies some Colchester brooches in design BUT leave it with me, I haven't been beaten yet so I'll find it even if I have to invent a new type for it Cheesy Cheesy

He told me he thinks its never been worn, in hand its so much better the pin still moves Shocked its a 1980's find what he's kept for this long, I don't really know much more about it, iv passed it on to a friend of mine now who's started to collect brooches (the reason I got it in the first place) maybe I should of had it for myself Undecided
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« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2015, 10:17:17 PM »
it looks perfect the day was made what a cracker
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« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2015, 10:18:55 PM »
Fantastic!
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« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2015, 10:20:09 PM »
Quote from: Dale on April 22, 2015, 10:16:56 PM
[ iv passed it on to a friend of mine now who's started to collect brooches (the reason I got it in the first place) maybe I should of had it for myself Undecided


No! you should have sold it to me that's what you should of done lol
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« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2015, 05:47:24 AM »
Geoff have you been up working on it all night lol Wink
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« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2015, 06:17:02 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2015, 06:46:41 AM »
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« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2015, 10:43:35 AM »
OK well an answer of sorts (and yes Dale most of it lol) as said it's a Polden hills type but a derivative (which is the experts way of saying they don't know lol)  having designs similar to, not Colchester as I first thought, a Later Dolphin brooch and so is dated pretty late for a Polden hills at around 170 AD, there are 3 other known examples though there could be far more that are worn and have lost the comma design from the head, interestingly the other 3 have been found in Worcestershire, Cirencester and Thornbury and so could be unique to the Cotswold villa culture and could explain its late date as the intricacy of the pin/spring would have made it far more expensive to manufacture than the hinged pin it also seems to totally rely on the surface relief for decoration at a time that brooches were increasing being enamelled Undecided
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