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AN00750879_001_l. Silver expanding wire bracelet with coiled ends. 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…

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…

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…

A Pictish treasure hoard discovered in 1958 on St Ninian's Isle, Shetland, buried beneath a stone slab marked with a cross, on what is believed to be the site of an early chapel. The hoard consists of various items of silver metalwork, some pieces…

AN00274047_001_l. Silver scourge: one strand of trichinopoly chainwork is doubled and the two strands so formed are held together by plaited loops of wire at five unequally spaced places. The chain terminates in a large loop, or knot, from which…

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.…

AN00725475_001_l. Silver buckle with a cast oval loop and shield-on-tongue covered by a sheet gold plate, edged with beaded wire, and divided into two crescentic panels flanking a central rectangle, all filled with collared granules. Above them is a…

AN00756888_001_l. Silver buckle with oval loop and shield on tongue; inlaid with gold foil. 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…

2008BT1827_jpg_l. The inlaid gold and filigree jewellery of the seventh century was largely replaced in the early eighth century by silver work as a consequence of the increasing scarcity of gold. The focus on silver gave rise to new decorative…

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'…