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===Hunterston Brooch=== | ===Hunterston Brooch=== | ||
− | + | Found whist digging drains at Hunterston in the autumn of 1826, the Hunterston Brooch is famous because of its beauty and size [4] [5]. Made of silver, partially gilded and inset with gold filigree and studded with Amber, the brooch is in almost perfect condition with only the point of the pin, some of the amber studs and all of their gold caps missing. The style and workmanship date to about AD 700 and it is considered an outstanding piece of design and craftsmanship combining both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon features in a period which artistically was a golden age in the British Isles. The original brooch is prominently displayed in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh to show inscriptions on the reverse and is regarded as one of their most important national treasures [6]. It is possible the owner, a person of high status to possess such a fine object, was a victim fleeing the Battle of Largs (1263). | |
===Royal Charter=== | ===Royal Charter=== |