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Description: | Silver Ingot. Cast and hammered rectangular ingot with slightly indented sides and ends. The mass may suggest this to represent two units of either of the predominant Viking Age systems of measurement for bullion, based on units of 4.07gms (in Scandinavia) or 4.34gms (Viking Dublin, and by extension the contemporary 'kingdom' of York). The ingot would be very slightly overweight in the former case and very slightly underweight in the latter - in both cases by a small fraction of a gram. Bullion finds from northern England are attributed to both the Viking heyday and to the period of English revival thereafter, which may have prompted the deposit of notable hoards. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1025. Given the age and material, this object is to be submitted to the Treasure process, ref TBC.Length: 28.9mm, Width: 10.2mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 8.54gms.
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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