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Description: | Probable Viking-age ingot of corroded green metal, perhaps base silver, copper, or copper alloy. 46 mm long, it gently swells from rounded ends to a sub-rectangular cross-section measuring 6.5 x 6 mm. All faces have hammering marks, and one face has distinct transverse flutes. It is therefore similar to silver ingots from Ditchingham and Hindringham (Med Arch 37, 222-4) and copper ingots from Costessey and Congham, all in Norfolk. Ingots are thought to have been used more as a non-monetary form of currency than as a way of storing raw materials, and the copper ingots are the first hints that copper may have had a status similar to that of precious metal in the Viking world. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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