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Disk Brooch

This brooch is from the Vendel period in Swedish history, which precedes the Viking age. Abstractly designed small brooches like these were fashionable until Viking oval brooches replaced them.

Credit: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1953...

600-650
Copper alloy, gilt
4.1 x 0.9cm
53.48.6
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection