Viking Objects
Ringerike Buckle (SWYOR-22FFC7)
This cast copper-alloy buckle has some elements of the Ringerike style decorating a broad, flat frame and a narrowed strap bar.
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Viking Objects
Coin of Cnut the Great (NARC-5DBF29)
This silver penny was minted in Cambridge for King Cnut the Great, the Danish king who reigned over England from 1016-1035. This particualr coin is is classified as a quatrefoil obverse type. Minting coins was a way of controlling the means of exchange within a kingdom and which created a more easily administered standardized system of trade. Moreover, the coins themselves were often used as propaganda, portaying symbols and statements that gave off a desired message. The Vikings later used the minting of coins to legitimize their own rule.
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Viking Designs
Drawing of a St Edmund Penny
Between 895 and 915, Scandinavian settlers in East Anglia minted a series of pennies and half pennies with the inscription SCE EADMVND REX (St Edmund the king). These coins appear to have been used widely throughout the Danelaw, and a large number of them were discovered in the Cuerdale Hoard from Lancashire.
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Viking Objects
Stirrup-Strap Mount (PUBLIC-ED7865)
This example of an Anglo-Scandinavian copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount is classed as a Williams Class B Type 2 and is decorated with openwork zoomorphic designs.
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Viking Objects
Stirrup Mount (LEIC-113224)
Early medieval copper-alloy stirrup mount rectangular in form and cross section. The main decoration consists of a trilobed motif, cebntrally placed, which sits on a very short wide shaft running to the objects base. The mount is classified under Williams class B, type 1, group 3.
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Viking Objects
Scabbard Chape (NLM-6C0242)
This possible scabbard chape fragment is very damaged but the reddish tint is often characteristic of Anglo-Scandinavian metalwork
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Viking Objects
Reproduction Brooch with Backwards-Facing Beast
A reproduction of a copper alloy disc brooch featuring a backwards-facing beast motif. This style of brooch would have been an everyday item rather than a high status one. For more information on Scandinavian jewellery in England check out our blog: Brooches, Pendants and Pins: Scandinavian Dress Accessories in England.
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Viking Objects
Coin of Cnut the Great (NARC-9AE391)
This silver Helmet IIIc Type penny was minted for King Cnut of England by the moneyer Eadwine in Thetford. The obverse displays + CNUT RECXA with a figure wearing a pointed helmet. The reverse displays + EDPINE ON DEOD and a voided short cross. Minting coins was a way of controlling the means of exchange within a kingdom and which created a more easily administered standardized system of trade. Moreover, the coins themselves were often used as propaganda, portaying symbols and statements that gave off a desired message. The Vikings later used the minting of coins to legitimize their own rule.
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Viking Objects
Reproduction Crucifix Pendant
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.
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Viking Objects
Stirrup-Strap Mount (LEIC-7584A4)
This incomplete example of an Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy stirrup-strap mount has the form of a Williams Class A mount and its decoration is similar to type 4.