Gold Plated Viking Age Replica Tiny Face Brooch

This tiny brooch is a copy of a viking age find from Northampton.  Gilding, or gold plating, was carried out on many jewelry items in the Viking age, using the mercury gilding process. This piece has a 1micron thick layer of gold, plated over pewter, to give an attractive representation of what some of these Viking age pieces may have looked like when they were first made.   It is cast in lead free pewter in Scotland, then gold plated.