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The Havor Ring. The Havor hoard (Swedish: Havorskatten) is an Iron Age treasure found in 1961, in Hablingbo on the Swedish island of Gotland.It consists of a large gold torc, known as the Havor Ring, along with several well-preserved bronze objects and was buried inside a Roman bronze situla in the mound surrounding a hillfort.
There were also bangles of British and Western Scandinavian design as well as plain, undecorated fingerings of Finnish and British design, known as ring money. [19] Khazar coin, c. 800. Of the 14,295 coins found, 14,200 were Islamic dirhams, [20] four were Nordic (from Hedeby), one was Byzantine and 23 were from Persia.
Moving to the 17th Century and a ring found near Merton offers insight into the funeral rituals of people in the Stuart era. Dr Geake says: "Mourning rings were made to remember the person who ...
The Curmsun Disc is a convex-concave gold disc that gained scholarly attention in 2014 after an 11-year-old Polish girl in Sweden showed it to her history teacher. Some scholars have tentatively dated the disc to the 10th to 12th century, although its authenticity is not universally accepted by historians or archaeologists.
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The 1,400-year-old gold ring found in Emmerlev as seen from below. “To make such a unique and one-of-a-kind find is completely surreal. I am very proud and honored to be able to contribute a ...
Bracteate DR BR42 bearing the inscription Alu and a figure on a horse. A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden).
In 1977, Morgan Perigo's gold college graduation ring was lost to the ocean in Barbados. He just got it back. Diver finds gold ring lost in ocean 47 years ago, surprises its owner