A brooch is a
decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to hold them
closed. It is usually made of metal,
often silver or gold but sometimes bronze or some other material. Brooches are
frequently decorated with enamel or with gemstones and may be solely for ornament or sometimes serve a
practical function as a fastening,
perhaps for a cloak.
The earliest known brooches are from the Bronze Age. As fashions in brooches
changed rather quickly, they are important chronological indicators. Many sorts
of European brooches found in archaeology as usually referred to by the Latin
term fibula.
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