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Silver, ball-type, thistle brooch
A silver brooch in a thistle pattern. This is an example of a ball-type penannular brooch, which would have functioned as a dress or cloak fastener. The brooch has a silver penannular ring and has two solid globular terminals with criss-cross brambled decoration (hence the term thistle brooch) and terminals with the decorated ring ends extending beyond them. The pin is fitted into a thistle head w…
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Subject
- jewellery
- Brooch
- archaeological objects
- Brooch
- Jewelry
- Archaeological artifact
Medium
- silver
- Silver
Subject
- jewellery
- Brooch
- archaeological objects
- Brooch
- Jewelry
- Archaeological artifact
Medium
- silver
- Silver
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Temporal
- Early Medieval
Places
- https://www.geonames.org/2963597/
Current location
- https://www.huntmuseum.com/
Identifier
- HCA 508
- HCA508
Extent
- L 15.1; Diam. 5.9
Language
- en
- eng
Is part of
- Europeana Archaeology
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-07-29T17:50:23.519Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2020-08-27T23:58:50.968Z