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  2. Hunterston Brooch - Wikipedia

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    The brooch is cast in silver, mounted with gold, silver and amber decoration. c. 700 AD Rear view Detail of pin-head. The Hunterston Brooch is a highly important Celtic brooch of "pseudo-penannular" type found near Hunterston, North Ayrshire, Scotland, in either, according to one account, 1826 by two men from West Kilbride, who were digging drains at the foot of Goldenberry Hill, [1] or in ...

  3. Celtic brooch - Wikipedia

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    There are rare exceptions in which a highly decorated brooch shows Scandinavian stylistic and technical influence, notably an Irish brooch from Rathlin Island, with areas stamped where the Irish tradition would have used casting. [51] The brooches appear to have been made by "native" metalworkers, but worn by both Vikings and Gaels. [52]

  4. Scottish jewellery - Wikipedia

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    The thistle brooch is a simpler version of the penannular brooch, with less surface decoration, which gained popularity around 1100. The thistle is the national flower of Scotland and acts as an emblem. Today, thistle brooches are often made of silver and contain a thistle motif, and are not necessarily a penannular brooch. [citation needed]

  5. Ædwen's brooch - Wikipedia

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    Ædwen's brooch (also known as Sutton brooch, British Museum 1951,10-11,1) is an early 11th-century Anglo-Scandinavian silver disc brooch with an inscription on the reverse side. It was discovered in 1694 during the ploughing of a field in Sutton , Isle of Ely , Cambridgeshire , along with a hoard including coins and gold rings.

  6. Viking art - Wikipedia

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    Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...

  7. Galloway Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The Galloway Hoard, now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, is a hoard of more than 100 gold, silver, glass, crystal, stone, and earthenware objects from the Viking Age, discovered in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, in September 2014.

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