A reproduction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire. (c) Centre for the Study of the Viking Age
A reproduction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire. (c) Centre for the Study of the Viking Age

A reproduction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire. (c) Centre for the Study of the Viking Age A reprodA reproduction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire. (c) Centre for the Study of the Viking Ageuction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire. (c) Mark Bentley

Reproduction Crucifix Pendant

A reproduction crucifix pendant based on one found in Swinhope, Lincolnshire

Crucifixes like this one would have been worn to display one’s faith and may have been a way for newly converted Scandinavians to be more accepted in society. By the late tenth to early eleventh centuries, assimilation would have seen many Scandinavians, both elites and common people, converted to Christianity and adopting Anglo-Saxon ways.

Object Type

Pendant

Date

circa 950 — 1150

Ascribed Culture

Original/Reproduction

Reproduction

Material

Collection

Viking Objects

Current Location

Private Ownership

Keywords

Anglo-Scandinavian, christianity, crucifix, jewellery, Lincolnshire, pendant, pewter, Portable_Antiquities_Scheme, religion, women

Further information

You can see the original at Private Ownership.

Acknowledgements

Made by Adam Parsons of Blueaxe Reproductions

(c) Centre for the Study of the Viking Age

References

Portable Antiquities Scheme

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