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mainham Brooch is usually dated to the late 8th or early 9th centuries as it is seen as transitional in both style and material. Its annular form and use of filigree place it in the 8th century Irish tradition, while its use of silver, as opposed to gilding, indicates at earliest an early 9th century origin, that is in the period after the 795 AD Viking invasion of Ireland , when silver became more available to native metalworkers. Provenance The Tara Brooch, 650-750 AD It was found in the mid-18th century at a late 9th and early 10th century Viking burial site at Kilmainham, County Dublin, Ireland, alongside swords and other artifacts of Scandinavian origin or influence. After further excavations in the 21st century, the area of Kilmainham-Islandbridge was described by historian Stephen Harrison as "demonstrably the largest burial complex of its type in western Europe, Scandinavia excluded". The find spot was near the ruins of a late medieval hospice run by the Saint John of Jerusalem Order of Templars. Its earliest recorded ownership dates to the late 18th century, when it was in the collection of Ralph Ouseley of County Sligo. Today it is held by the archeology branch of the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street, Dublin, having been acquired by the Royal Irish Academy befo