Brooch

Description

Complete silver penannular brooch, pin missing, with plain terminals and twisted hoop, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD

Museum reference

X.FC 36

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Brooch

Date

6th - 7th century
Early Medieval

Materials

Silver

Physical description

Complete silver penannular brooch, pin missing, with plain terminals and twisted hoop. This brooch is slightly larger and significantly less worn than the similar but fragmentary (now repaired) brooch x.FC 37, and the hoop is more tightly twisted. Extensive toolmarks (sub-rectangular, majority L 5-12mm) are visible on one surface, as well as a cluster on the second surface by the transition between hoop and terminal, and on surface of the inner edge of both terminals. Texture is visible running along alternating hoop twists, suggesting metal stress on one face of the square-sectioned bar that the brooch is formed from.

Collection place(s)

Norrie's Law, Largo, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Landowner: Durham, James, General, 1754 - 1840
Reporter: Buist, George, 1805 - 1860

Exhibitions

• Scotland's Early Silver (13 Oct 2017 - 25 Feb 2018)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts (10 Mar 2016 - 25 Sep 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts: Art and Identity (24 Sep 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
  British Museum

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

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