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Two Viking tortoise brooches, of the type Rygh 649, were found on the island of St Kilda,

They must have been part of the contents of a female Viking Age burial, but nothing else remains of the site.

One of these brooches is now lost, the other is in the the National Museum of Copenhagen.

image: Canmore
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image: Canmore

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