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LOT 1567
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Ring
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (1.76 grams, 29 mm).
A slender shank with the ends twisted together, lozengiform plaque with punched ring-and-dot and bowtie motifs. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound North Wold, Norfolk, UK.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.111(6), for type.
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Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
