Viking Archeology Blog
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands
The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age is pleased to report that we have been awarded a substantial grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Follow-On Fund for a project called Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands. The project will fund a variety of initiatives and events related to the British Museum/York Museums Trust travelling exhibition on the Vikings which will be on at Lakeside from November 2017 to March 2018. CSVA alumnus Dr Roderick Dale will start as Cultural Engagement Fellow on the project on 1st February. More details to follow.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Dressed up with bling stolen in Viking raids
When a female
Norwegian Viking died some time during the 9th century, she was buried
wearing a status symbol: a beautiful piece of bronze jewellery worn on
her traditional Norse dress.
In the summer
of 2016, 1200 years after her death, the piece of jewellery was found by
chance at Agdenes farm, at the outermost part of the Trondheim Fjord in
mid-Norway. The well-preserved object is an ornament with a bird figure
that has fish- or dolphin-like patterns on both "wings."
The decorations
suggest that the jewellery was made in a Celtic workshop, most likely
in Ireland, in the 8th or 9th century. It was originally used as a
fitting for a horse's harness, but holes at the bottom and traces of
rust from a needle on the back show that it had probably been turned
into a brooch at a later stage.
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