Viking Period Silver Jewellery Group

8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/8 - 2 in. (19.9 grams total, 34-50 mm).

A mixed group of silver jewellery items comprising: a free-running axehead pendant suspended on a silver ring with overlapping arms and coiled sleeves; an earring composed of a tapering round-section penannular hoop, graduated conical knops to each terminal; an incomplete and misshapen penannular hoop decorated with flowerhead collars, filigree rings to each upper and lower face. [3]

Provenance

Acquired in the late 1990s-2000.
Property of an East London gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.106, 108.

CONDITION

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