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LOT 837
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,750
VIKING - GOLD TWIST RING
(11.63 grams, 28mm ext.dia. 20 mm int.dia.).
(11.63 grams, 28mm ext.dia. 20 mm int.dia.).
8th-11th century AD. A Viking finger ring , the band comprising six thick (about 1.5mm) wires tightly plaited; the wires thicker at the centre to provide an expanding band, fused at the base.
PROVENANCE:
Property of a gentleman.
LITERATURE:
Cf. construction methods of silver rings in the Vaalse hoard in HÃ¥rdh, Silver in the Viking Age: A Regional Economic Study, Stockholm, 1996.
