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Text, Three brooches

European Museums, The British Museum

Three brooches. These brooches reflect contacts between Scandinavia and neighboring lands. The cruciform (cross-shaped) brooch is Scandinavian in form, but similar types were also worn by women in Anglo-Saxon England and nothern Germany. The radiate-headed (knobbed) brooch and smaller bow (arched) brooch are decoraed with abstract animal motifs and chip-carved scrolls deriving from Late Roman art. AD 400s-500s. 1910,0507.1 1921,1101.41 and 217

Brooches with cruciform (cross-shaped) symbol
Genre:  400 - 500 A.D.

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Three brooches, four-point, three-point, cruciform


Three brooches, four-point, three-point, cruciform

Brooches with cruciform (cross-shaped) symbol Three broochesThese brooches reflect contacts between...

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