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Brooch of Lorn
The Brooch of Lorn or ''Braìste Lathurna'' in Gaelic, is a medieval "turreted" disk brooch that was supposedly taken from Robert the Bruce (Robert I of Scotland) at the Battle of Dalrigh in 1306.〔MacDougall, 110–112〕 However the brooch is today dated long after this period. The brooch is centred on a large quartz charmstone, and it is not implausible that this stone had belonged to the Bruce; the brooch also acted as a reliquary.〔Finlay, 46, Gillies〕 The brooch is owned by the MacDougall of Dunollie Preservation Trust. It was rarely seen in public until it was loaned to an exhibition in the British Museum in London in 2012.〔Gillies〕
==Description and context==
The brooch is one of three West Highland 16th-century silver turreted brooches centred on charmstones, though the brooches are thought to be resettings of stones which already had reputations. The others are the Lochbuy or Lochbuie Brooch in the British Museum,〔(Lochbuie Brooch ), British Museum〕 and the Ugadale or Lossit Brooch, also still in private hands. All three were exhibited together in the British Museum's exhibition ''Shakespeare: Staging the World'' in 2012.〔Fotheringham, 43–46; ("Brooch of Lorn goes south to British Museum for Shakespeare exhibition" ), 9 April 2012 (with the best photographs); Gillies〕 In the following months a replica made in recent years was exhibited in six local libraries in Argyll.〔(Argyll Council ); Gillies〕
The silver disc at the back of the brooch is about 4.5 inches across, and the brooch is secured by a hinged pin (a later replacement) and catch behind it. Underneath the central stone is an empty compartment (said in 1905 to contain fragments of human bone),〔MacDougall, 111; Gillies〕 probably designed to hold a relic; the stone is set well above the base disc, and is surrounded by eight detached ''chatons'' or turrets, about 1.25 inches high, and each topped by a Scottish freshwater pearl. There is "a profusion of filigree work in the form of stellate ''appliqué'' ornaments and cabled borders".〔Finlay, 46 (quoted); MacDougall, 111; Gillies〕 The style of decoration appears influenced by European workshops, and the brooch lacks the post-Insular motifs seen in the Lochbuie Brooch,〔Gillies〕 and other late medieval West Highland objects in various media.〔Glenn, 147, 185–191〕 The use of "turrets" as decoration was popular in late medieval jewellery, but usually in far less elaborate forms, with brooches having a number of small projecting turrets around a ring forming the brooch.
The dating of the Brooch of Lorn varies somewhat, though all contemporary specialists are clear that it is from well after Robert the Bruce's lifetime. The British Museum describes it as "dated on stylistic grounds to late 16th C but incorporating earlier rock crystal charmstones in which there was revived interest in the 16th C.", and dates its own Lochbuie Brooch, which it believes was by the same hand, to "1600 (circa)".〔British Museum, Lochbuie Brooch, as reference above.〕 However David Caldwell, curator of the Scottish medieval collections at the National Museums of Scotland is quoted as saying: "It is a very important piece of west Highland art, but it dates from the mid 15th century, so cannot be Bruce’s. Maybe the original brooch fell to pieces and this one was substituted for it". Findlay in 1999 preferred the earlier part of the 16th century, and Catherine Gillies, curator for the clan, says "The re-setting has been narrowed by style and historiography to roughly the third quarter of the 16th century", but still uses the description "medieval".〔Findlay, 111; Gillies.〕
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