Plaid Brooch Battersea Celtic Penannular

A fixed-pin penannular-style plaid brooch. The design of this brooch is inspired by the Battersea Shield, considered to be one of the finest pieces of Celtic Art to have survived from the Iron Age. Dredged from the Thames in 1857, it is assumed to date from sometime between 350 and 50BC - before the Romans first came to Britain. You can read our feature on the Battersea shield here. Our designer Elidh based this brooch on the shield, to give it the essence of that early Celtic feel.

Brooches with large movable central pins were near universal as garment fasteners in the Iron Age, although the design was heartily adopted and elaborated by the peoples of Scotland and Ireland in the centuries between 700 and 900AD. 

This is a large brooch, 120mm long and 80mm wide - ideal for use with our fly plaids, or upon a shawl.

Plaid brooches attach to the fly plaid in front of the shoulder and act as weights to keep them in place. Don’t pin them to the jacket as well, in case the plaid gets snagged on anything. Otherwise this makes a great statement piece brooch for other occasions.  

Completely designed, cast and finished in our Glasgow workshops, Scotland, cast in 100% lead-free pewter.