Talk:Tara Brooch

Image
The image on this article had been deleted, so I have linked to a PD image from 1896 until we can find a better one. - PKM 17:35, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thoughts
Throughly enjoyed a first read-through of this. A few thoughts, which I shall add to as I revisit over the weekend: KJP1 (talk) 17:42, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Present location and recent BM conservation/cleaning - these conclude the lead, but I can’t see then referenced in the body. Do we need a section (or sub-section of the Discovery section) which references NM Ireland and the BM’s work?
 * Dating - “trumpet spiral” lost me, and I see you’ve red-linked it. Perhaps a footnote, until we have an article? This is a nice image, anything from the Book of Durrow that could be used?
 * Description: Terminals - final sentence of first para. “In red and blue that adapt Germanic…techniques”. Is it “adapt” or “adopt”? Either could make sense but only one is probably right!
 * Condition - “… has sustained substantial losses since.” This piques the reader’s interest, or it did mine! Is there any more information on how the, rather scandalous, damage occurred after discovery? Was it deliberate, e.g. bits removed for separate, illicit?, sale, or accidental?
 * 19th century reception - this is interesting, . Waterhouse obviously exhibited his copies, along with the original, at the Great Exhibition and the V&A bought one.
 * Thanks. Have been researching these, and have resolutions; on JSTOR - "The Original Appearance of the Tara Brooch" (ie what was lost when) & "The Finding of the Tara Brooch", neither of which are kind to mr. Waterhouse. Ceoil (talk) 02:47, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ps: The damage and losses post rediscovery will be a whole section; we have drawings and photographs from 1850 to 1899, that track the whole sorry saga. It's actually breathtakingly pitiful. Hold on!! Ceoil (talk) 02:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)