Summary

Brooch with lozenge-shaped ornaments, covered with diapered pattern, deposited at Woodhead, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, c. 1298 - 1302

Accession Number

H.KO 5

Other references

Original description

Brooch, imperfect, with lozenge-shaped ornaments, covered with diapered pattern. Woodhead, Canobie, Dumfriesshire. Caption note, February 1993: Deposited at Canonbie, c. 1298 - 1302.//T. Deniozou note, 2011-02-04, Information taken from Glenn, Virginia, Romanesque & Gothic: Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland, NMSE Publishing, Edinburgh, 2003: [One of] B1, C42, 41-2 [Angels, Nobles and Unicorns reference] //The surviving half of a wire ring brooch has three remaining lozenge-shaped plates attached to the front. The lozenges bear an engraved lattice design and traces of gilding. The pin, which is missing its point, is a flattened oval in section. The collar is round and is decorated with small ring punch marks. The reverse is undecorated.//NOTES:1 Thompson 1956, no 70, 22.//2 Graham Callander 1924, fig 5, no 4, 167, no 32, 173.//3 PSAS, vol V, 1864, pl viii, 216.//JM

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

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Method (e.g. excavation)

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Place (i.e. location of discovery)

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

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