Browse Items (35 total)

Saucer brooch
AN00270121_001_l. Gilt copper alloy saucer brooch with chip-carved Style I animal decoration encircling a face-mask;cast. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British…

Silver disc-brooch
AN00103760_001_l. Silver disc brooch with concentric zones of decoration on gold plate (secured with 4 rivets); central cabochon garnet; white paste; cloisonné garnets; glass & white paste settings & filigree; niello & silver borders. Anglo-Saxon…

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A cast copper-alloy, gilded, great square-headed brooch found while metal detecting. This item is recorded on the PAS database (BERK-EoFC63 BROOCH).

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AN00755664_001_l. Silver circular brooch of hammered sheet, slightly convex, and irregular in circumference, decorated with engraved zoomorphic and degenerate foliate ornament. The design is built upon four intersecting, double-contoured circles.…

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AN00752777_001_l. Dished gilt copper-alloy disc brooch, Urnes style. Within a scalloped border, the convex surface of the circular brooch bears an openwork design of a coiled, ribbon animal in combat with a snake. The head has a pronounced lentoid…

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AN00035987_001_l. The Fuller Brooch. Circular brooch of hammered sheet-metal, slightly convex in section. It is extensively inlaid with niello and has an openwork outer zone encircling a central roundel which is framed and divided by broad milled…

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AN00006088_002_l. Strickland Brooch. Slightly convex bossed disc brooch of sheet silver with inlaid gold and niello ornament. The zoomorphic decoration is deeply carved and pierced to give an openwork effect. Within the beaded rim, a zone of…

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AN00486945_001_l. Gilt copper alloy square-headed brooch with remainds of iron pin. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

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AN00753247_001_l. Gilt bronze square-head brooch: oblong panel of debased Style I on head; dotted ribs divide lobed foot into 4 Style I fields; rosettes on side lobes. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution…

Replica brooch
Linda Babb writes: This replica of the Pentney brooch was chosen instead of an engagement ring when I became engaged to Jonathan Parkhouse in 1994 because of the symbolism of two entwined creatures. The brooch was marketed by the 'Past Times'…
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