Drawings Viking bronze penannular brooch from Ireland
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.269
Artist/Designer/Maker
Willson, T J - Artist
Martin, L C - Engraver
Martin, L C - Engraver
Production date
1852
1861
1852
1861
1861
1852
1861
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut
Engraving
Woodcut
Dimensions
Height: 89mm
Width: 135mm
Width: 135mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
A brooch, here also figured (original size), is of tasteful design, the acus being clipped by two floral ornaments, the deep cavities having doubtless been originally filled with enamel or inlaid metals. This curious brooch was found in a barrow at Skryne, near Tara, County Meath...
Inscription content
MARTIN
Inscription content
Arch. Inst. XVIII. 164
References
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 9 (1852): 199-200.Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 200.
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 164-5.
Illustration (Engraving), pp. 165.
Reference (free text)
W R H Brackstone, [Catalogue of Archaeological Collections, 1848-1867], p. 31.
Photocopy of the original manuscript in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
Brackstone's catalogue entry is as follows: 'Brooch found 1849 in opening a Barrow or [illegible] grave in the Parish of Skryne near Tara Co Meath. In excavating the mound about 7 feet from the surface there was a quantity of ashes, beneath which was a layer of Flints and calcined[?] Bones - close to which this Fibula was found. No other article of interest was found with this. The grave was covered with & surrounded by large flat stones.'
Reference (free text)
Catalogue of Antiquities, Works of Art, and Historical Scottish Relics Exhibited in the Museum of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland During Their Annual Meeting Held in Edinburgh, July, 1856 (Edinburgh: Constable, 1859), p. 53-4.
Illustration (Engraving), p. 54.
The item is a cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).
