Brooches

thumb|Wing Brooch, 2nd century AD, Metropolitan Museum of Art A brooch (, ) is a decorative jewellery item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together. It is usually made of metal, often silver or gold or some other material. Brooches are frequently decorated with enamel or with gemstones and may be solely for ornament or serve a practical function as a clothes fastener. The earliest known brooches are from the Bronze Age. As fashions in brooches changed rather quickly, they are important chronological indicators. In archaeology, ancient European brooches are usually re

ancient pin or brooch for securing clothing

jewelry for fastening clothing consisting of a whole or open ring and pin

effects worn by Christian pilgrims

brooch in the form of a flat disk, with a pin back

Suffrage jewellery, Women's Social and Political Union

Jewellery collection owned and worn by Princess Diana