The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. Based on the study of some 15,000 specimens, the second volume illustrates some 2,000, all drawn by the author.



The first chapter is a discussion of manufacturing techniques, methods of study and the concept of dating. The bulk of the book consists of nine chapters examining in detail the myriad style of brooches from the second century B.C., when the habit of wearing brooches really took off, to the early fifth century A.D. when newcomers brought their own types of brooch and imposed them on the rest of what was to become England. The final chapter is a synthesis of various strands mentioned in the body of the book and the social implications of the great change in brooch wearing which occurred in the third century.

• Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: Volume 1
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgements
  • Volume 1: Contents
  • Volume 2: Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
    • Part 1. The Study
    • Part 2. Dating
    • Part 3. Typologies and Classification
    • Part 4. Selection and Bias
    • Part 5. Materials and Manufacture
    • Part 6. The Illustrations
  • Chapter 2. Late La Tène, Britain and the Continent
    • Part 1. The Stead, Birdlip, Nauheim and Drahtfibel Group, etc. [Late La T, N, ND, D, DD]
    • Part 2. The Rosette and Langton Down Group
    • Part 3. The Colchester
    • Part 4. The Aesica [AESICA]
    • Part 5. The South Western La Tène Series [SW]. Plate 30
    • Part 6. The Military La Tène II [Mil La T II]. Plate 30
  • Chapter 3. The Colchester Derivative
    • Part 1. The Harlow Spring System [CD Ha].
    • Part 2. The Rearhook Spring System [CD RH]
    • Part 3. The Polden Hill Spring System [CD PH]
    • Part 4. The Hinged Pin [CD H]
    • Part 5. Polden Hill/Hinged Pin (CD H/PH)
  • Chapter 4. The Headstud and Others
    • Part 1. Alternative Headstuds [Proto HDST]
    • Part 2. The Headstud [Headstud]
    • Part 3. The Wroxeter. Plates 76 – 77 [WROX]
    • Part 4. Colchester Derivatives, with Trumpet-style Knops [CD H/PH 1]
  • Chapter 5. The Trumpet and its Varieties
    • Part 1. Mainstream Trumpets [TR]
    • Part 2. Double-lugged
    • Part 3. The Knop Replaced by Flat Plates
    • Part 4. Hinged
  • Chapter 6. Continental Imports and Their Influence
    • Part 1. Alésia-Aucissa Series [Alesia-Auc]
    • Part 2. The Hod Hill [HOD HILL]
    • Part 3. The Durotrigan Type [DURO]
    • Part 4. The Augenfibel and Relatives [AUGEN]
    • Part 5. The Pannonian, Norican etc . [PAN]
  • Chapter 7. The Plate and Related, and Dragonesques
    • Part 1. British
    • The Enamelled Series
    • The Gilded Series
    • Part 2. Continental [PL CONT]
    • Part 3. Objects and Animals [OBJECT]
    • Part 4. Dragonesque [DRAG]
  • Chapter 8. The Knee, Almgren 101 and Interlopers
    • Part 1. The Knee [KNEE]
    • Part 2. Almgren 101 [Almgren 101]
    • Part 3. Interlopers from Free Germany etc . [FG].
  • Chapter 9. The Crossbow Sequence
    • Part 1. The Sprung-pin or Proto Crossbow Brooches [proto CR]
    • Part 2. The Crossbow and its Antecedents [CR]
  • Chapter 10. Penannulars [PEN]
    • Part 1. Coiled
    • Part 2. Folded over
    • Part 3. Knobbed
    • Part 4. Late-zoomorphic and related, Fowler E and Part of F
    • Part 5. Others
  • Chapter 11. Usage, Tribes, Fashions and the Demise of the Bow Brooch
    • Part 1. Who Wore Brooches, Why and How
    • Part 2. The Problem of Military Brooches
    • Part 3. Religion
    • 4. Marketing and Money
  • Appendix 1. The Dating of the King Harry Lane Cemetery
  • Appendix 2. The Dating of Applied White Metal Trim
    • Chapter 5. Trumpets
    • Chapter 7. Plate
  • Appendix 3. South Cadbury South-West Gate
  • The Great Harvard Brooch Bibliography
• Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: Volume 2
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Volume 2: Contents
  • Legend
  • The Plates
• The Database and its Abbreviations
• CD-Rom Contents: Serial List