This bracelet still retains its delicate hook and eye clasp. Bracelets like this one were fairly high status items.

Decorated with enamel.

Metal bracelets like this were fairly high status items.

Copper alloy decorated bracelet terminal.

This enamelled copper alloy brooch still has traces of the delicate safety chain on the rear. Chatelaine brooches were used to suspend toilet or cosmetic implements such as tweezers, nail cleaners and ear scoops. They were probably more symbolic of status and personal hygiene than practical items for use. Unfortunately, they are missing on this example.

Decorated with enamel.

Gilded with a piece of green glass set into the centre.

This type of brooch is also known as a dolphin brooch due to its characteristic shape.

This distinctive brooch has been tinned or silvered to make it shine.

This distinctive brooch has been tinned or silvered to make it shine.

This distinctive brooch has been tinned or silvered to make parts of the design shine. Aesica was the Roman name for a fort at Great Chesters on Hadrian's Wall where this type of brooch was found.

This type of brooch is also known as a dolphin brooch due to its characteristic shape.

Roman copper alloy, military-style belt buckle with integral openwork plate.

Whatever was once set into the bezel of this ring is now missing.

This ring has a handy built-in key.

Roman women often had elaborate hairstyles that required pins to keep them in place.

These may have been part of a toilet set suspended on a loop with a pair of tweezers and ear scoop.

A terret is a metal loop on a horse harness designed to guide the reins. It could also be attached to a chariot for the same purpose.