Viking Objects
Coin of Cnut the Great (LEIC-B1F8EA)
This coin is an example of a Quatrefoil type silver penny of Cnut, minted in Stamford or Norwich by the moneyer Thurstan. Minting coins was a way of controlling the means of exchange within a kingdom and one which created a more easily administered standardized system of trade. Moreover, the coins themselves were often used as propaganda, portraying symbols and statements that gave off a desired message. The Vikings later used the minting of coins to legitimise their own rule.
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Viking Objects
Pendant (LEIC-C58A13)
This copper-alloy pendant depicts an individual holding a shield and a sword. Similar designs have been seen in pendants from southern Scandinavia which are generally identified as valkyries, though they could represent other mythological figures. The closest parallel in England is an example from Wickham Market, Suffolk. .
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Viking Objects
Lead-Alloy Gaming Piece (LEIC-F39697)
This and similar pieces have also been interpreted as weights although the gaming-piece interpretation is more secure. Pieces like this would have been used to play hnefatafl and/or Nine Men’s Morris, both of which are known to have been played in Scandinavia in the Viking Age.
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Urnes-Style Strap-End (LEIC-B46A41)
This fragmentary copper-alloy strap-end is decorated with openwork zoomorphic design in the Urnes style. It has been classified as a Thomas Class G strap-end.
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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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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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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.