Viking silver penannular brooch from Co. Antrim

This small brooch is richly decorated. In the centre a motive of cut out larger and smaller circles can be seen. In the centre of the larger circles, and in between, black (imitati...

This small brooch has within a circle of elliptical motifs clearly a star-shape with blue (imitation) gemstone as central motif.´ Outside the circle are ten also blue stones embedd...

This small brooch has the openwork shape of a heart. In the middle of the heart is a sequin with balls on it in the shape of a cross. At the top of the heart are alternately a larg...

I've brough this brooch, which was my nanny's brooch. I grew up in the United States, in a tight-knit Irish American community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. All the branches of my...

The item is a proof or a cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).The engraving shows a bronze penannular brooch of the Viking period, found in a barrow near Tara; a ...

The item is a cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).The engraving shows a bronze penannular brooch of the Viking period, found in a barrow near Tara....

Metal and imitation pearl brooch, France, ca. 1950. Comet brooch made from silver coloured metal and set with rhinestones and an imitation pearl. Designed in the shape of a comet f...

The item is a plate from the Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).The engraving shows the silver penannular brooch found with a torque in a crevice in the rock on the north si...