Brooches - English Styles

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Viking Age Compendium articles on Brooches:

Jewellery

Jewellery

Viking Paired Styles

Viking Paired Styles

Viking Single Styles

Viking Single Styles

Frankish Styles

Frankish Styles

Jewellery

Jewellery

Viking Paired Styles

Viking Paired Styles

Viking Single Styles

Viking Single Styles

Frankish Styles

Frankish 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)}

• 
  Evington, Leicestershire
• 
  Elmsett
• 
  Pentney, Norfolk

Large Silver Riveted

Early examples

Characteristic of the C9th. ^{(KERSHAW 2013 p.118)}

• Strickland brooch ^{(HINTON 2005 p.112-113)}
  
• Fuller brooch ^{(HINTON 2005 p.112-113) (WILSON 1964 cat.153)}
  

• 
  Fuller Brooch

Later examples

• Sutton, Isle of Ely. c.1020-1070AD. Decorated in Ringerike style ^{(KERSHAW 2013 p.118)}.

• 
  Barsham

Crosses

• 
  Castle Acre, Norfolk
• 
  Mildenhall, Suffolk
• 
  Hilgay
• 
  Ringstead

Backward beast

Anglo-Danish C9th / C10th
3.3cm ^{(WILSON 1964 p.122 cat.8)}

• 
  Icklingham, Suffolk
• 
  Swaffham, Norfolk
• 
  Brantham
• 
  Butley
• 
  Cavenham
• 
  Felixstowe

Coin brooches

Canterbury, silver soldered beaded wires around a coin like disk ^{(HINTON 2005 p.144)}

• 
  Canterbury Brooch

Coin like brooches

Cheap side, London, lead alloy ^{(HINTON 2005 p.157)}

• York
  

• 
  Boxmoor, Hertfordshire
• 

Cheap side

Cheap side, London, lead alloy ^{(HINTON 2005 p.157)}

Urnes

• Pitney brooch
• Wisbech brooch

• 
  Pitney, Somerset
• 
  Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Cross Brooches

• 
  Sandringham

Bird Brooches

• 
  Stoke Holy Cross

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)}

Kershaw, Jane F. (2013) Viking Identities. Scandinavian Jewellery in England.

 ^{(KERSHAW 2013)}

Wilson, David M. (1964) Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700-1100. The British Museum.

 ^{(WILSON 1964)}