Summary

Penannular bronze brooch with ends shaped like thistle heads, from Eigg

Accession Number

X.IL 163

Other references

Original description

VIKING PERIOD. Penannular brooch, bronze, having ends shaped like thistle-heads, silvered, 2 1/2" dia. Eigg. KJD notes, Registration date reads '1878, 1882'.

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)

Eigg, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1878

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image