Galloway Hoard Bossed Quatrefoil Hunting Scene Brooch venus and along shorelines

and along shorelines

and the Berserker qualities conferred by magical bondings with wild animals like bears and wolves

It is at work in the poems of John Clare

Long Lost Friend

Galloway Hoard Bossed Quatrefoil Hunting Scene Brooch venus and along shorelinesThis quatrefoil (four lobed) brooch from the Galloway hoard is chased and engraved with four faces arranged around the center. Two appear to be blowing hunting horns, while the other two, with their floppy ears, could be hunting hounds. The brooch is further decorated with five domed bosses arranged in a cross pattern. It is very similar in design to the Galloway hoard Bossed Quatrefoil Faces Brooch, also from the hoard, and the two may have been worn