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Description: | An incomplete silver Viking ingot. The object is an end cut obliquely from a cigar-shaped ingot of ovoid section, length, 23 mm. It is smooth on top, while underneath the surface is slightly pitted and flattened at the cut end, and there are around five nicked testing marks along each side. The form is typical of Viking-period examples found both singly and in hoards mainly of the late 9th and 10th centuries in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, as well as in the British Isles, e.g. the well-known hoard from Cuerdale, Lancashire, in the British Museum, deposited around AD 905. Such ingots could have been cut up for use as bullion in payments or trade transactions. Descrption is taken from the treasure report written B.M. Ager, Curator, Department of Prehistory & Europe.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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