Summary

Part of a circular brooch formed of rod of silver, ornamented with two rosettes alternating with ornamented knobs, deposited at Woodhead, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, c. 1298 - 1302

Accession Number

H.KO 6

Other references

Original description

[Section of] Brooch, circular, formed of rod of silver, ornamented with 2 rosettes alternating with ornamented knobs. 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 ring brooch originally with four rosettes and four knops. Two eight-petalled rosettes and one knop decorated with short punched lines remain. The pin is missing, but would have hinged in the centre of one of the rosettes. The reverse is plain.//NOTES:1 Thompson 1956, no 70, 22. //2 Graham Callander 1924, no 27, 172-3.//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

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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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