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Brooches

Viking trefoil brooch, 43 mm, Yorkshire, 10th century. Gotland animal-head brooch, ca 10th-11th century, 46 mm. Gotland copper alloy bear-head brooch with clear snout and ears, 46 mm. Lozenge brooch, Borre style, 9th C, gilt copper alloy with tinned reverse. Thorpe Bassett, North Yorkshire.
33 mm Borre-style brooch with interlace snakes off each corner of the central square, 9th Century, from Thetford, Norfolk. Domed brooch with three Borre-style bear heads, 25 mm, copper alloy with remnants of gilding, 10th century. Borre bear head design drawing Two birds (ravens?) on 79 mm 10th Century cast bronze elliptical tortoise brooch, reportedly Alnwick, Northumbria, UK.
Mammen style brooch, 10th century, 26x24mm, Cambridgeshire. One of 5 known, two being in the Ashmolean. Jellinge-style brooch, 29 mm, showing two barred S-shaped ribbon animals with gripping paws. Found Shingham, Norfolk. Cockerel brooch, copper alloy, 45 mm, 9th-10th century, found near Bawtry, Nottinghamshire (within the Danelaw). Viking age large crossbow fibula, poppy head terminals and stylised animal head, 105 mm. 8th-10th Century.
reconstruction of Semigallian clothing, 7th-10th century, Lithuanian National Museum, Arsenal, Vilnius Museum reconstruction of Baltic crossbow brooch Viking age decorated pennanular brooch, 35 mm wide, 11th-12th C, Ladoga on the Russian trade route. Pennanular brooch NW Russia, 11th-12th C.
Late Viking age pennanular brooch, 42 mm wide, with polyhedral terminals and both linear and stamped decoration, Baltic, Liv. Objects from the Baltic found at Trelleborg Fort (10th century), Trelleborg Museum of the Viking Age Robust 11 cm gold-inlaid iron ring-headed pin with moveable ring, ca 10th-11th century Viking Age decorated pennanular bronze ornament, 65 mm wide, 10th-11th century. Baltic (Lithuania-Latvia)

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