File:LEIC-D37E54 - Roman or early medieval penannular brooch (FindID 581063).jpg

English: Complete copper alloy penannular brooch of Roman or post-Roman date. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with parallel grooving. The terminals appear cast, but with residual fold line along each side. The terminals are proto-zoomorphic in form with crossed diagonal grooves at the outer ends for 'ears', a transverse groove along the 'head', and diagonal grooves to create a 'snout'. The pin is the standard wrap-around type with no grooving. The dividing line between this type and the more zoomorphic Type D brooches can be quite fine, but this example clearly has several zoomorphic features and so clearly belongs to ther former group. Because of this the date of their development from the earlier Type D can be hard to ascertain, but seems likely to have occured in the 3rd century AD. This type continues to be used well into the early medieval period, occasionally appearing in Anglo-Saxon graves.