The incredibly rare Roman brooch (Image: Lincolnshire County Council)
There is a British series called The Detectorists. It is basically about a club of nerdy Detectorists looking for things like this. It is so well done and funny as hell. If you like Cohen Brother movies or Napoleon Dynamite you will love this series.
Is that horse wearing slippers on it’s front feet?
Just to play a bit o’ devils advocate here...
What makes the vintage of this pin Roman times? Nothing in the article says it has been dated.
If pins like this were used in Roman times, then one can definitively state this particular pin was made sometime during the window of Roman times to now. Replicas of historic/antique/antiquity items are made now and then...
Looks Celtic, yes?
Authorities: This is going to change the way the world looks at brooches.
Finder: so... No money then.
Authorities: no. But the effect upon scholastic brooch research cannot be exaggerated.
Finder: but no money.
Authorities: no.
It sounds like the only thing the guy that found it gets is this article.
Do they not think that someone could have lost it there recently? 50, 100, 200 years or so?
At first I thought, “Why would a horse wear a brooch?” then, “Oh, I get it.”
Just WOW!
Beautiful.
Neat.
