My collection artefacts I have catagorized here as follows:
- artefacts with a distinct Scandinavian/viking decoration and/or art style (found or originating from Scandinavia);
Viking bird brooch of the late Viking Age
Viking golden beads from Gotland
Scandinavian viking bronze bangle
Viking silver twisted torc bracelet
Viking silver bracelet with punched decoration
Viking animal-head shaped brooch
Eastern Scandinavian type sword chape with falcon motif
Viking silver Thor's hammer with golden balls
Viking horse harness pendant with image of Norse mythological wolves Skoll and Hati
- artefacts with an Anglo-Scandinavian art style (found or originating from England);
Anglo-Scandinavian or viking drinking horn final
Anglo-Scandinavian horse cheek piece (part)
Anglo-Scandinavian horse strap junction with the possible image of Loki
Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup terminal mounts
Anglo-Scandinavian bronze brooch in Mammen style
Anglo-Scandinavian bronze mount in Urnes style with man with moustache
Anglo-Scandinavian 'embedded brooch' weight
Anglo-Scandinavian lozenge brooch in Borre style
Viking or Anglo-Scandinavian 'interlaced circle' lozenge brooch in Borre style
Viking bronze buckles from England
Viking 'ship-shaped' strap end
Viking 'man and birds'strap end
Viking embedded 'La Tene' spiral gaming piece
Viking inset chipped carved trefoil weight
Viking inset chip carving gaming piece
Viking embedded coin gaming piece
Viking St. Edmund Memorial penny
Viking 'quatrefoil type'penny of Cnut
- artefacts with an Hiberno-Norse decoration and/or art style (found or originating from Ireland);
Viking stopper in Hiberno-Norse / Borre style
Hiberno-Norse kings of Dublin penny
Viking / Hiberno-Norse ring headed pin
Group of 'Hneftafl' Viking gaming pieces
Early medieval Irish drinking horn terminal
Late viking or Anglo-Norman horse bit cheek pieces
- artefacts with a Rus viking type of decoration and/or art style wich are found in present Russia or neigbouring countries like Ukrain, partly with a Scandinavian alike art style, partly with a distinct decoration or art style on itself from the Viking Age;
Rus-Viking or Scandinavian-Rus type sword chape in Borre style
Rus viking pendant with Odin and raven
Rus viking Thor's hammer from necklace
Rus viking pendant with enamel
Rus viking enamelled stud from horse harness
Rus or Slavic horse harness pendant
Rus or Baltic pendant or amulet
Kievan-Rus viking cross pendant in Jellinge style
- artefacts with a decoration and/or art style wich are found among the Slavs, Balts-Finns and Finno-Ugrian tribes in the time the vikings lived.
Western Slavic goad of a prick spur
Baltic or eastern Rus sword chape with oriental palm motif
Baltic Finns bird pendant from chain ornament
Baltic Finns tortoise brooch detail from chain ornament
Lead stone figurine from Latvia
Eastern Baltic viking ring (1)
Eastern Baltic viking ring (2)
Baltic 'twisted wire'spiral ring
Baltic aviform bird mount or brooch
Eastern type sword chape bird and trequeta type
Viking braided silver bracelet
Finno-Ugric Perm animal style amulets and bracelets
Finno-Ugric Perm animal style plaque with man and birds
Finnic or Finno-Ugric domed tortoise brooch in Borre style
- artefacts with a (late) Saxon, Anglo-Norman or romanesque style (found in England)
Late viking or Anglo-Norman horse bridle cheek pieces
Norman or medieval romanesque buckle brooch
Medieval strap end in romanesque style
Late Saxon, viking or Anglo-Norman stirrup strap mounts
Late viking or romanesque horse harness pendant from the Viking Age found in the Netherlands.
NOTE: not all my artefacts had found their way to these section yet. Various items I have described in the blogs, other items have to be described yet..so keep an eye open for updates.
Collecting artefacts makes it possible to hold a 1000 year old artefact in your hand and feel its magic and history.. every piece is carrying it's own always not 100% known, story.
That is the magic of it, the thrill of it all..
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