This Brass Celtic era Jewelry is cast in SOLID antiqued BRASS with an attached matching movable cast pin . It is an extremely popular and attractive means of fastening two pieces of cloth together at the shoulder. With it's handsome debossed pattern on both the ring and the pin, it will be an attractive adornment to any period garment.
Measures 2 5/8 inches across the outside of the oval and 1 7/8 inches deep. The Pin is a full 3 inches.
The Celtic brooch, more properly called the penannular brooch, is a type of clothes fasteners. They are especially associated with the beginning of the Early Medieval
period in Ireland and Britain, although they are found in other times
and places—for example, forming part of traditional female dress in
areas in modern North Africa.
Beginning as utilitarian fasteners in the Iron Age and Roman period, they are especially associated with the highly ornate brooches produced in precious metal for the elites of Ireland and Scotland
from about 700 to 900, which are popularly known as Celtic brooches or
similar terms. They are the most significant objects in high-quality
secular metalwork from Early Medieval Celtic art, or Insular art, as art historians prefer to call it. The type continued in simpler forms such as the thistle brooch into the 11th century, during what is often known as the Viking Age in Ireland and Scotland.
Penannular brooches feature a long pin
attached by its head to a ring; the pin can move freely around the ring
as far as the terminals, which are close together. In the true
penannular type, there is a gap between the
terminals wide enough for the pin to pass through. The
penannular type is a simple and efficient way of fastening loosely
woven cloth where the pin will not leave a permanent hole. How to use a penannular brooch
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Pierce the material
with the pin | 2. Flip the ring | 3. Turn the ring |
The brooches were worn by both men and women, usually singly at the
shoulder by men and on the breast by women, and with the pin pointing
up; an Irish law code says that in the event of injury from a pin to
another person, the wearer is not at fault if the pin did not project
too far and the brooch was worn in these ways by the sexes.
The most elaborate examples were clearly significant expressions of
status at the top of society, which were also worn by clergy, at least
in Ireland, though probably to fasten copes and other vestments rather than as everyday wear. The Senchas Mhor, an early Irish law tract, specified that the sons of major kings, when being fostered, should have "brooches of gold having crystal inserted in them", while the sons of minor kings need wear only silver brooches.
(These make great medieval/renaissance gifts...)
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