A bronze fibula, of a class which occurred at La Tene, made of a single piece of wire hammered out to form a flat bow, the pin plates solid, was found with others at Springhead, in company with a Gaulish coin and Roman coins, dating from Augustus to Gratian. (1) Roman brooch from Springhead. A one-piece brooch with two-coil unilateral spring, longated catch-plate and thickened bow. Both the profile and form of spring point to this being a descendant of the boat, or leech, brooches of the Hallstatt period, of which there are very few, if any, authenticated specimens from Britain. [See Illustrations Card - AO/59/81/7.] (2)

<1> Reliquary Vol. 8, N.S., 1902, p.50 (A.G. Wright) (OS Card Reference). SKE49143.

<2> Arch. Cant. Vol. 59, 1947, p.116. Illust. p.117 (E.J.W. Hildyard) (OS Card Reference). SKE37094.