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2 unusual facts about Brooch


Broach

Brooch, also spelled "broach", a decorative item designed to be attached to garments

Brooch

A distinct tradition of penannular brooches and the related pseudo-penannular types developed in Early Medieval Ireland and Scotland, producing some of the most elaborately decorated brooches ever made, including the Tara Brooch.


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Canterbury cross

The original cross, kept at the Canterbury Heritage Museum, is a bronze cruciform brooch, with triangular panels of silver, incised with a triquetra and inlaid with niello.

Castle Kastellaun

A reconstruction of the wagon burial discovered in Bell in 1938, remains of Celtic pottery, fibulæ and jewellery, and a model of a Roman legionary's helmet convey an impression of how our ancestors once lived.

Charmstone

Examples of 'charm-stones' or 'cold-stones' are held at National Museum of Rural Life, Kittochside, near East Kilbride, and the example set in the Lochbuy or Lochbuie Brooch is in the British Museum.

Fibularis brevis

The terms "Peroneal" (i.e., Artery, Retinaculum) and "Peroneus" (i.e., Longus and Brevis) are derived from the Greek word Perone (pronounced Pair-uh-knee) meaning pin of a brooch or a buckle.

Illyrian fibulae

A significant later import was the heavy brooch with a large arch and long arm named from the site of Certosa near Bologna.

Tangendorf disc brooch

Due to the improper recovery without accurate documentation of the find, accurate statements can not be given about the archaeological context the disc brooch to the Iron Age burial and the Bronze Age secondary burial.

The Wicked Lady

Henrietta wins Barbara's jewels, including her most-prized possession, her late mother's ruby brooch, in a game of Ombre.


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