School/style: Urnes style
Cultures/periods: Viking
Production date: 11thC
Found/Acquired: Europe: Scandinavia: Sweden: Gotland
Box-shaped, compound, multiple brooch; building guide marks; top with applied central boss and four quadrupeds; sides with four applied anthropomorphic columns; appliqués and gilding in blackened silver; riveted copper alloy base with cast and mortised Urnes-style animal weaves; cast bearded pin head and cast latch; original gold retouched leaf appliques and twisted silver wire missing.