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Medieval Brooches
Medieval brooches - Brooches were an important part of the wardrobe. Along with jewelled belts of every kind, medieval brooches were practical as well as decorative. They held up cloaks and tunics and various bits of fabric.
The most common type of medieval brooches in the later middle ages is the circle pin, often jewelled, and usually with inscriptions extolling the virtues of a loved one. The brooch was a neccesity in Medieval wardrobes.
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In early Medieval times, the most common style of brooches was of Celtic design, in the later Medieval times the most common style was a Circle Brooch which were made of precious metals and even jeweled. Medieval Collectibles offers high quality Medieval Brooches made of sterling silver and pewter that can be worn with your Medieval Garb or your Modern Day wardrobe.
Courtly love also appeared in more elaborate brooches, where figures of lovers were formed in gold and enamelled in bright colours.
Bronze Roman Fibulae
Roman fibulae - bronze. Brooches for the fastening of garments, formed of the pin (acus), the bow and the catch plate, much like a modern safety pin. These were made in Britain through the Celtic Iron Age and the Roman period, and seem to have been a fashion mainly of the western provinces, developed from the Celts. Enamelled decoration was popular, small fish, insects and animals being great favourites, as well as polychrome blobs and discs. The crossbow fibula has a higher arch and two arms but is a later design (second to third centuries AD). - near Trier on the Rhine-Danube frontier an enamelling workshop has been identified in the village of Pachten, making use of local deposits of copper to make brooches and to repair metal vessels (and incidentally to forge coins!)
Romano-British Brooches
Romano-British jewellery was made and used in Britain after the Roman conquest in AD43, using Roman or native styles or a combination of both.