The Celtic brooch, more properly called the penannular brooch, and its closely related type, the pseudo-penannular brooch, are types of brooch clothes...
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The Tara Brooch is an Irish Celtic brooch, dated to the late-7th or early-8th century. It is of the pseudo-penannular type (with a fully closed head or...
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cross motif. Square-headed brooch Strickland Brooch Cruciform brooch Plated disc brooch Celtic brooches represent a distinct tradition of elaborately...
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Scottish jewellery (section Penannular/ Celtic brooch)
[self-published source?] The ring and pin style penannular brooch, also known as the Celtic or Viking brooch, had the original purpose of being a fastener for...
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The Hunterston Brooch is a highly important Celtic brooch of "pseudo-penannular" type found near Hunterston, North Ayrshire, Scotland, in either, according...
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Celts (redirect from Celtic people)
usages) or Celtic peoples (/ˈkɛltɪk/ KEL-tik) were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages...
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there were two main categories of brooch: the long (bow) brooch and the circular (disc) brooch. The long brooch category includes cruciform, square-headed...
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A Luckenbooth brooch is a Scottish heart-shaped brooch. These brooches often have a crown above one heart, or two intertwined hearts. They are typically...
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may refer to: Penannular brooch or Celtic brooch, a type of brooch clothes fasteners, often rather large Pseudo-penannular brooch, a related type that appears...
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The Braganza Brooch is a gold ornamental fibula that was made in the third century BC by a Greek craftsman for a Celtic Iberian client. Since its discovery...
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The dragonesque brooch is a distinctive type of Romano-British brooch made in Roman Britain between about 75 and 175 AD. They have been found in graves...
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Picts (category Historical Celtic peoples)
particular form of the Irish Celtic brooch, preferring true penannular brooches with lobed terminals. Some older Irish brooches were adapted to the Pictish...
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The Londesborough Brooch is a Celtic pseudo-penannular brooch from Ireland. Dating from the late eighth or early ninth century, it is a particularly elaborate...
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interest in Celtic visual art came sometime later than the revived interest in Celtic literature. By the 1840s reproduction Celtic brooches and other forms...
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the top of society, with the most elaborate Celtic brooches, like the Tara Brooch and Hunterston Brooch, perhaps the most ornate and finely made of all...
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fuelled the Celtic Revival in the mid-19th century. The 9th century Roscrea Brooch is one of a number of transitional brooches. Later Irish brooches Scandinavian...
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single, straight hinged pin like those of other Anglo-Saxon ring or Celtic brooches and are further defined by the presence of a slot and pin-stops on...
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Desborough Mirror (category Ancient Celtic metalwork)
It was found in the same field as a contemporary 2 in (51 mm) bronze Celtic brooch, although the artefacts may not be from the same deposit (i.e. burial)...
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The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight) is a variety of movements and trends in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that see a renewed...
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The Roscrea brooch is a 9th-century Celtic brooch of the pseudo-penannular type, found at or near Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland, before 1829. It...
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Ardagh Hoard (category Celtic brooches)
metal Insular art, indeed of Celtic art in general, and is thought to have been made in the 8th century AD. Elaborate brooches, essentially the same as those...
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The Kilmainham Brooch is a late 8th- or early 9th-century Celtic brooch of the "penannular" type (i.e. its ring does not fully close or is incomplete)...
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The Breadalbane Brooch is a silver and gilt Celtic penannular brooch probably made in Ireland, but later altered and then found in Scotland. Probably dating...
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Hill of Tara (category Articles containing Proto-Celtic-language text)
Stonehenge – Ancient monument in England Tara Brooch – Irish Celtic brooch, c. 7th century AD pennanular brooch named after, but not from Tara Faddan More...
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A fibula (/ˈfɪbjʊlə/, pl.: fibulae /ˈfɪbjʊli/) is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder. The fibula developed in a variety...
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The Rogart Brooch is a large penannular brooch of Pictish origin, dated to the eighth century. Characteristic of contemporary Pictish brooches, it contains...
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The Brooch of Lorn or Braìste Lathurna in Gaelic, is a medieval "turreted" disk brooch supposedly taken from Robert the Bruce (Robert I of Scotland) at...
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St Ninian's Isle Treasure (category Celtic brooches)
hoard includes various silver metalwork items, including twelve pennanular brooches. The treasure is now in the National Museum of Scotland. The hoard consists...
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Caubeen Caul (headgear) Caulk boots Cavalier boots Cavalier hat Cellulose Celtic brooch Ceremonial clothing in Western cultures Ceremonial dress Cervelliere...
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The Ballinderry Brooch is an Irish penannular brooch dated to the late 6th or early 7th centuries. It was found in the 1930s, along with a number of similar...
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