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EQUAL-ARMED BROOCH (TYA 283: 10)
Type: Equal-armed brooch, bronze, with peg decorations.
Use: Jewel.
Site: Raisio, Ihala, Mulli abode.
Period: Viking Age
Dating: 1000-1025 A.D.
Photographer: Arto Korhonen.
The Viking period jewelry were mostly of native production. However, the most important material, bronze, had to be imported.
Equal-armed brooches like this one, were very common in Northern Europe during the Viking Age. Women used them on their breast to fasten a shawl, or to close the neck-opening of an under-shirt. The early Scandinavian types were ornamented, for example with curious animal figures called "gripping beasts". At the later stages the equal-armed brooches were decorated with lines, and with pegs as well. This type of peg-ornamentation was a Finnish specialty of the late Viking period. It was used in round convex and pennannular brooches as well.
This brooch, from the Siiri cemetery, belongs to a Finnish typology that is also referred to as "group 8". It is believed to have been in use during the 11th century.
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Coordinates: x=117, y=131, z=18.95, r=26-28/28-30, 1st layer.
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