Summary

Silver brooch, part of the contents of a purse found in the wall of an old house in Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, possibly 14th century

Accession Number

H.KO 29

Other references

Original description

[One of] Three brooches of silver, Cross, Chain, & mass of silver pennies of James I [A.KO 27 - 33], found in 1878 in purse hid in wall of old house in Dumfries.//T. Deniozou note, 2011-02-18, 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] //Fragment of the ring of a brooch similar to E16.//NOTES:1 Thompson 1956, no 139, 53.//2 PSAS, vol XVI, no 2, 144.//3 Graham Callander 1924, fig 1, no 4, 160-63, no 38, 174.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1878

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

Not recorded

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Agent

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