Brooches - English Styles

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Viking Age Compendium articles on Brooches:
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English Styles
Viking Age Compendium articles on Brooches:
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English Styles

Disc brooches

British brooches tend to be about 4cm (1½”) [EWING 2007]:p.61

The use of precious metals to make disc brooches in England reduces during the C10th. Hoards from the late 9th and early 10th contain many more brooches made from precious metals than those from the late 10th and 11th [HINTON 2005]:p.167

With a couple of exceptions English brooches tend to be flat.

Riveted

Staffs, Manifold Valley, c.873-75, 4.9cm [WILSON 1964]:p.120 cat.2


Large Silver Riveted

Early examples

Characteristic of the C9th. [KERSHAW 2013]:p.118

Later examples

  • Sutton, Isle of Ely. c.1020-1070AD. Decorated in Ringerike style [KERSHAW 2013]:p.118.


Crosses


Backward beast

Anglo-Danish C9th / C10th
3.3cm [WILSON 1964]:p.122 cat.8


Coin brooches

Canterbury, silver soldered beaded wires around a coin like disk [HINTON 2005]:p.144


Coin like brooches

Cheap side, London, lead alloy [HINTON 2005]:p.157

  • York


Cheap side

Cheap side, London, lead alloy [HINTON 2005]:p.157


Urnes

  • Pitney brooch
  • Wisbech brooch


Penny Brooches


Cross Brooches


Bird Brooches


Urnes Brooches


References

Backhouse, Janet; Turner, D.H. and Webster, Leslie (1984) The Golden Age of Anglo Saxon Art. [BACKHOUSE 1984] *
Ewing, Thor (2007) Viking Clothing. Tempus. [EWING 2007] ^ *
Hinton, David A. (2005) Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins ~ Possessions and People in Medieval Britain. [HINTON 2005] ^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 *
Kershaw, Jane F. (2013) Viking Identities. Scandinavian Jewellery in England. [KERSHAW 2013] ^ 1 2 *
Wilson, David M. (1964) Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700-1100. The British Museum. [WILSON 1964] ^ 1 2 3 *