Viking filigree disc brooch

By a granulated disc brooch of the Viking Age.

This filigree disc brooch with detailed granulation decoration was made after a find of a filigree pendant from the Viking period of the 10th to 11th century.

In the granulated jewellery of the Viking Age, small beads and fine wires were soldered in filigree miniature work on a silver carrier. Our replica, on the other hand, is completely cast, whereby the filigree representation is excellently expressed.

You can buy the granulated disc brooch in bronze or in genuine silver-plated.

Diameter of the Viking disc brooch: 2.3 cm.

The filigree granulation disc brooch can also be worn as a pendant with the eyelet on the back.

At the time of the Vikings, it was particularly common in the Slavic regions to decorate fibula, pendants and beads with an elaborate, filigree granulation decoration in the form of fine silver wires, pearl strings and balls. Slavic jewellery manufacturers knew how to create small works of art with the simplest of means.

As a basis for the granulation decoration, a chased or cast basic form of thin silver sheet was used, on which the granules were then soldered, whereby the solder was hardly perceptible with the eye, so that it almost seemed that the filigree granulations floated above the surface.

With some granulated jewellery of the Viking Age, not only Slavic but also South Russian influence can be seen In the 11th century, gold granulations were then increasingly widespread, such as disc-shaped fibulae and amulets, which in the 11th and 12th century increased strongly in ornamentation.