Hunterston Brooch

The Hunterston Brooch is a highly important Celtic brooch of "pseudo-penannular" type found near Hunterston, North Ayrshire, Scotland, in either, according to one account, 1826 by two men from West Kilbride, who were digging drains at the foot of Goldenberry Hill, or in 1830.

The Hunterston Brooch is clearly an object of very high status, indicating its owner's power and prestige. With the Tara Brooch in the National Museum of Ireland and the Londesborough Brooch in the British Museum, it is considered one of the finest of over 50 highly elaborate surviving Irish Celtic brooches, and "arguably the earliest of the ornate penannular brooches from Britain and Ireland".

It is in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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