Ring brooch

Bronze penannular brooch. The brooch is of eastern type with square terminal knobs ornamented with ring and dot decoration. On the inside of the ring a row of letter-like symbols is inscribed. Penannular brooches of this type appear to have characterised the clothes of Sámi males across the whole of northern Scandinavia. Part of a hoard find, Unna Saiva, Gällivare Parish, Lappland.

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