Summary

Small octagonal silver brooch with an illegible inscription, found at Branxholm, Roxburghshire with coins of David II and Robert II

Accession Number

H.NGA 21

Other references

Original description

Small octagonal silver brooch, 3/4" dia. illegible inscription,Branxholm, Roxburghshire. f.w. coins of David II & Robert II.//T. Deniozou note, 2011-01-28, 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 octagonal brooch is complete with pin, the sides alternately flat and ridged. The inscriptions on the four flat panels on both sides are illegible. Each panel appears to have two letters on it. The ridged areas between the flat panels have sloping sides decorated alternately with oblique lines meeting at the crest and small circles. The pin, a flattened oval in section, has a rectangular collar with a horizontal groove.//NOTES:1 Thompson 1956, no 53, 19.//2 Graham Callander 1924, fig 4, no 5, 166, no 21, 171, gives the inscription as I HE SV SN(front) AZ AR EN VS (reverse).//3 PSAS, vol III, 1860, 484.//JM.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1860

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

W.W. Hay Newton

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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