archaicwonder:Viking Silver Braided Bracelet, 10th Century ADThis is a gorgeous and highly wearable
archaicwonder:Viking Silver Braided Bracelet, 10th Century ADThis is a gorgeous and highly wearable twisted silver bracelet, made to be worn by either a man or woman, and probably ultimately deposited in a hoard. Vikings hoarded precious metals, especially silver, to a great degree; for example, in Viking Scotland alone, we know of thirty-one Viking age hoards containing silver - and those are just the ones we know about - while Viking Ireland has nearly double that! Silver bracelets of all sizes were a huge component of hoards, and functioned as a wearable form of currency. This example is emblematic of the type. -- source link
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