Brooch / mount

Description

Rectangular gilt bronze mount mount with panels of Celtic interlace later converted into a brooch, found in a Viking grave at Carn a Bhorich, Oronsay, Argyll, 700 - 1000 AD

Museum reference

X.FC 183

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Brooch / mount

Date

8th - 10th century

Style / Culture

Viking

Materials

Bronze, Gilt, Amber

Physical description

Panels of Celtic interlace

Collection place(s)

Carn a Bhorich, Oronsay, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• The Viking World - Cultures in Contact (09 Sep 2014 - 04 Jan 2015)
  Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte

• VIKING (21 Jun 2013 - 17 Nov 2013)
  National Museum of Denmark

• Vikings! The untold story (18 Jan 2013 - 12 May 2013)
  Museum of Scotland

• Vikings: Life and Legend (06 Mar 2014 - 22 Jun 2014)
  British Museum

References

Grieg, Sigurd. Viking Antiquities in Scotland (=Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, Part II, ed. by Haakon Shetelig). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1940, pp 44-5

Anderson, Joseph. Notice of bronze brooches and personal ornaments from a ship burial of the Viking time in Oronsay, and other bronze ornaments from Colonsay. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 41 (1906-7), pp 438-9.

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

national museum of scotland »
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scotland galleries »
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