Plaid Brooch Battersea Rose Gold

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.

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 limited edition brooch has been finished in Rose Gold, to better evoke the feel of the shield it is based on. 

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 shoulder plaid to act as weights to keep them in place. 

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