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LOT 1464
Viking Age Bronze Bracelet with Interlaced Design
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (87 grams, 75 mm).
D-section with heavy basketwork motif to the outer face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.109(8); Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.CXXI (15).
FootnotesThe bracelet is the product of Baltic workmanship. Certain Baltic tribes of Lithuania did not have any characteristic ethnographic female adornments, but they were strongly influenced by Scandinavian jewellery. Their range can be described by the archaeologists only on the basis of the distribution of the burial complexes.
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