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Roman, Viking & Medieval Detector Finds with Green Howards Badge - Group of Fifteen
Roman, Viking & Medieval Detector Finds with Green Howards Badge - Group of Fifteen
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Europe, Roman through Medieval and later British, ca. 100–1950 CE. A study group of fifteen small metal-detector finds in bronze, brass, and copper alloy, spanning the Roman, Viking, and medieval worlds with one later military addition. The assemblage gathers harness and dress fittings, openwork mounts, rosettes and quatrefoil studs, a looped bell, a conical strap-end, and assorted strap mounts, their surfaces carrying the earthy patinas and accretions of long burial. One florid disc retains a glowing red glass inlay at its center, a survival of color rare among ground finds. The latest piece is a Green Howards brass other ranks' collar badge, a coronated "A" entwined with the Dannebrog cross. Together they compress nearly two millennia of personal adornment and equipment into a single tray, the quiet residue of lives lost to the soil. Size of largest (quatrefoil): 1.2" W x 1.4" H (3.0 cm W x 3.6 cm H).

The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) carried a badge honoring Princess Alexandra of Denmark, wife of Edward VII. Her royal cypher, a crowned "A," is entwined with the Dannebrog (the Danish cross), a nod to her birthplace. The regiment adopted this device after Alexandra became colonel-in-chief in 1875; the brass other ranks' pattern was worn into the mid-twentieth century. Its presence here, alongside Roman and early medieval fittings recovered from the same ground, illustrates how a single field can yield a stratified record of human passage, from imperial frontier to Victorian soldiery.

Provenance: private Charlotte, North Carolina, USA collection; ex-Joel Malter collection, prior to 2004

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  • Condition: Fair. Many fragmentary with heavy weathering and abrasions throughout. Rich patina and liberal remaining detail.

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