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LOT 0569
Viking Silver Hack 'Hoard' Group
9TH-12TH CENTURY AD
5" (2.4 kg, longest ingot: 13cm).
A hack-silver hoard comprising: two complete kolben arm-rings; six arm-ring fragments; a square-section curved fragment with slot to each face; two twisted finger rings; a crescent pendant(?) with collar to each end; three sheet-silver pendant fragments; an earring fragment; five pendant fragments; a quantity of irregular molten silver; a quantity of ingots and fragments, mainly D-section and rectangular-section, some partly worked; twenty-seven ceramic crucible fragments; fifteen dirhem coins, two similar largely complete, eighteen similar cut-halves, one fragment. [281, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a lady living in Kent, UK; formerly part of her grandfather's collection; acquired in Germany after WWII; thence by descent 2006.
LiteratureSee Hårdh, B. Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic Study, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia no.25, Stockholm, 1996 for discussion.
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