Gold Plated Pair of Replica Viking Age Broa Style Oval Brooches

These brooches, in the broa-style, are based on a find from Öland in Sweden. The style of the original piece dates to the early part of the viking age, where a pair of brooches would once have been used to fasten the female dress known as a hangarok or smokkr. Gilding, or gold plating, was carried out on many jewellery items in the Viking age, using the mercury gilding process. This piece has a 1micron thick layer of gold, plated over pewter, to give an attractive representation of what some of these Viking age pieces may have looked like when they were first made.   It is cast in lead free pewter in Scotland, then gold plated. ************************************************SOLD AS A PAIR***************************************************************************