Search our website
Key in a search term below to search our website.
Key in a search term below to search our website.
Image © National Museums Scotland
View full screenIncomplete silver penannular brooch, pin missing, with plain terminals and twisted hoop, now broken into two pieces joined by a repair sleeve, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD
X.FC 37
6th - 7th century
Early Medieval
Fragmentary silver penannular brooch with plain terminals and twisted hoop, now broken into two pieces joined by a silver repair sleeve. This repair has shortened the circumference of the brooch and the terminal edges are no longer parallel. The hoop is less tightly twisted and significantly more worn that the second penannular similar brooch from Norrie's Law (x.FC 36). Casting flaws are apparent on the ‘front’ right terminal, visible as small bubbles. Cracks are visible in the surface of ‘back’ of both terminals, and an area of different coloured metal on both faces of one terminal is suggestive of a further repair or reinforcement at some point. There is a small patch of toolmarks on the ‘back’ of one terminal at the point of transition into the hoop. There are two sample holes made c.1970s by McKerrell (D c.1.5mm), one in the broken surface of hoop adjacent to repair sleeve, the other in an intact area of the other portion of the hoop.
Norrie's Law, Largo, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe
Landowner: Durham, James, General, 1754 - 1840
Reporter: Buist, George, 1805 - 1860
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
national museum of scotland »
level -1 »
scotland galleries »
early people »
symbols of power »
v002