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[[File:Ireland 2010 etc 028 (2).jpg|thumb|[[Bros Tara|Kerongsang Tara]], tampak belakang]]
Tidak lama selepas tahun 700, muncul kerongsang-kerongsang berukuran besar yang sarat dengan hiasan, berbahan baku logam mulia dan bertatahkan ratna mutu manikam. Tampak jelas bahwa kerongsang-kerongsan ini adalah barang penanda status mulia pemakainya, dan dihasilkan lewat pengerahan segenap keterampilan [[pandai emas]] terpiawai.
Archaeological, and some literary, evidence suggests that brooches in precious metal were a mark of royal status, along with wearing a purple cloak, and it is probably as such that they are worn by [[Christ]] on a [[high cross]] at [[Monasterboice]] and by the [[Virgin Mary]] on another.<ref>Whitfield (2001), 223-226</ref> All surviving examples, numbering over 50 (not all complete) in the case of the Irish ones,<ref>NMI, O'Floinn, 177</ref> have been recovered by excavation, or at least finding in the ground, but where the detailed circumstances of the find are known, few are from graves, and finds in hoards are much more common. When they were in graves, the burials are often much later than the date of the brooch,<ref>Laing, 304,</ref> as in a brooch in the Irish 8th century style found in a Norse burial in [[Westray]], [[Orkney]],<ref>Youngs, no. 195.</ref> and possibly the Kilmainham Brooch.<ref>Ship, Harrison, 72; Youngs, no. 74; NMI, 185</ref> Elaborate brooches often have one or more names—presumed to be those of owners—scratched on the reverse, often in [[rune]]s. Plainer brooches in bronze and similar alloys continue to be found in much larger numbers.
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