Heavy Viking Silver Bracelet w/ Stamped Design - 46.9 g

Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 8th to 11th century CE. An elegant hammered 95% silver bracelet with a stamped motif of dot, hourglass, and stippled triangular designs. The stamped triangular pattern was very popular in the Viking world, although its meaning is unknown. A bracelet such as this would have been made in a specialized workshop centered around a hearth, probably using the lost wax casting technique. Silver was the principal currency of the Viking world, which stretched from Russia to northern Canada at the height of their influence. In many places, the Vikings kept silver not as coins, but as jewelry, a wearable currency form that was not subject to the authority of a monarch or mint. One of the most common archaeological finds from the Viking period is a hoard of metal objects, often buried in the earth or deposited in bodies of water, like river beds. Size: 2.9" W (7.4 cm); silver is 95%; total weight: 46.9 grams

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and then Latvia collection; found on the Baltic Sea coast prior to 1982

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#153450
Condition Report: Intact and wearable, though we suggest caution when bending ancient silver.