-
function as a
clothes fastener. The
earliest known brooches are from the
Bronze Age. As
fashions in
brooches changed rather quickly, they are
important chronological...
-
Penannular brooches appear in
Ireland from the 5th century,
presumably made by
craftsmen working in
Roman Britain traditions.
Surviving Irish brooches became...
- Tara
Brooch. Pseudo-penannular
brooches may also be
described as "annular", or as "ring
brooches". The
terms "open
brooch" or "open ring
brooch" are also...
- A
Luckenbooth brooch is a
Scottish heart-shaped
brooch.
These brooches often have a
crown above one heart, or two
intertwined hearts. They are typically...
- shapes, but all were
based on the safety-pin principle.
Unlike most
modern brooches,
fibulae were not only decorative; they
originally served a
practical function:...
- an Anglo-Saxon
brooch. The
Strickland Brooch is
similar in
appearance to the
Fuller Brooch, also in the
British Museum. Both
brooches are
circular in...
-
surviving Irish Celtic brooches, and "arguably the
earliest of the
ornate penannular brooches from
Britain and Ireland". The
Hunterston brooch may have been made...
-
Richard Hattatt's
Ancient Brooches, 1989,
Oxbow Books Hunter, Fraser, "Changing
Objects in
Changing Worlds:
Dragonesque Brooches and
Beaded Torcs", In A...
- The
Fuller Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon
silver and
niello brooch dated to the late 9th century,
which is now in the
British Museum,
where it is
normally on...
- The
British Museum Press, 1964. R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford, 'Late
Saxon disc-
brooches' in Dark-Age Britain, London, Methuen, 1956, pp. 171–201.
Catherine E....
