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

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>

<1> Display Card Dorset County Museum (Graphic material). SWX1314.

‘8. LONGBREDY VILLAGE. SY 568902. At junction of Greensand and Gault. 4th-century coin and scatter coarse ware, some sherds unabraded found in garden (1980).’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Royal Archaeological Institute, 1846, Archaeological Journal 3, 78 (Serial). SDO20351.

<4> Royal Archaeological Institute, 1852, Archaeological Journal 9 (Serial). SDO20312.

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 NVQ 30-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451010 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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