‘More like the work of fairies than of human beings’: the filigree on the ‘Tara’ brooch, a masterpiece of late Celtic metalwork
In the early Middle Ages, Irish goldsmiths achieved a rare mastery of gold working techniques. The ‘Tara’ brooch, dated to c. 700 AD, shows many characteristics of this late Celtic style of metalwork. This paper discusses the manufacture of its filigree, drawing on the writer’s microscopic study and...
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2009
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| Dostęp online: | https://doi.org/10.4000/archeosciences.2257 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/a1je https://journals.openedition.org/archeosciences/2257 |
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