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Description: | Fragment of gold bar. Probable Viking hack gold. A gold bar, 9mm thick, 12mm long and 4.5mm wide has been broken from a leger object of bar at both ends. There is no decoration or stamping visible.Gareth Williams has stated that: "(The Vikings had) what is known as a bullion economy, in which the weight and the purity of the precious metal are what is important, not what form the metal takes. Far and away the most common metal in the economy was silver, although gold was also used".Julie Cassidy
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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