The Hunterston runic brooch..
Acheson, William,jeweller,inscriber.StEdNL
[Dublin] : William Acheson, jeweller, 109, Grafton-Street, Dublin.,
[185-?]
The Hunterston Brooch is a highly important Celtic piece of jewelry found near Hunterston, North Ayrshire about 1830 and now in the collections of the National Museum of Scotland. The brooch, made about 700 AD, is cast in silver, gilt, and set with pieces of amber (most now missing), and decorated with interlaced animal bodies in gold filigree. William Acheson specialized in making fine copies of ancient ornaments and the second leaf of the bifolium gives prices for his facsimiles of this brooch in five different styles: silver, silver with a swivel pin, silver gilt and oxidized, the same with a swivel pin, and one set with malachite.
Catalogue of Runic literature ... of the Icelandic Coll. 1918.
The bifolium with the text has the manuscript inscription "Agents in Belfast / Mess. Lee & Son / High St.". The plate has the manuscript inscription "Engraving from original brooch / Wm. Acheson".
Fibulas (Jewelry)
Brooches
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