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Early Medieval (400AD - 1099AD)

Domestic

Pennanular brooch

Period:
Early Medieval
Description:

This brooch was used to secure a cloak.  Brooches of this type are found at a number of Early Medieval sites in western Britain and Ireland.  A very similar brooch was discovered on Luce Sands, Wigtownshire in the 1960s and is now in the Dumfries museum collection.

 

A pennanular ring-brooch.  The ring has a flattened oval section with flat sub-triangular terminals.  The ring band is decorated with closely set radial grooves and the terminals have central punched dot decoration.

Materials/Media:
copper alloy
Dimensions:
diameter 23mm
Source:
Stranraer Museum
Accession number:
WIWMS 1945.132A
Digital Number:
SRAC009n
Copyright:
Dumfries & Galloway Council