Copper Celtic or Viking penannular fibula brooch

Copper Celtic or Viking penannular fibula brooch

Material: alloy
Size: 37 x 37 mm
Color: copper

Penannular brooch (fibula) embossed and chiseled, copper color, with crosses in saltire (X-shaped) with balls in the center and at the ends, ornamented with knotworked animals, with billeted borders and decorated with triquetras.

Replica of a 9th-10th century artefact found in Ireland, which explains its both Celtic and Viking / Nordic spirit patterns.

original illustration:
Celtic art in pagan and christian times, J. Romilly Allen

More info on the British Museum website:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1888-0719-102

More info: the penannular brooch