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Anglo-Saxon-Viking coin weight, used for trading bullion and hacksilver: Material is lead and weighs around 36 g (1.3 oz). It is embedded with an Anglo-Saxon sceat dating to 720–750 and minted in Kent. It is edged in a dotted triangle pattern. Origin is the Danelaw region and dates to 870–930.
The coins date from the late 9th and early 10th centuries, providing a terminus post quem for dating the hoard. The first theory as to a likely 10th-century occasion for such a careful burying was that it had belonged to a wealthy Viking leader during the unrest that followed the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in the year 927 by ...
English: An early-medieval silver East Anglian Viking penny of St Edmund Memorial type (North 483), c.905-15. Ref: North 1991: 108-9; Blackburn and Pagan 2002. The obverse inscription SCE AIDM places the coin within the phase of the coinage post-dating the Cuerdale hoard of c.905 from which many St Edmumd Memorial pennies are known.
Archaeologists have confirmed that an ancient grave site unearthed recently in western Norway contains the remains of wealthy Viking women buried alongside jewellery, silver coins, and other ...
The mixed Viking Cuerdale Hoard, deposited in England before c. 910, also contains 8,600 coins, as well as these ingots and pieces of jewellery and plate. Hacksilver from the medieval period, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, Germany. Viking age settlement, eighth to eleventh centuries; trade and raid routes are marked green.
The main themes in Viking jewelry are patterns of nature and animals, increasing in abstraction as the time period progressed. [26] Later Viking jewelry also starts to exhibit simplistic geometric patterns. [27] The most intricate Viking work recovered is a set of two bands from the 6th century in Alleberg, Sweden. [26]
The Galloway Hoard, currently held in the National Museum of Scotland, is a hoard of more than 100 gold, silver, glass, crystal, stone, and earthen objects from the Viking Age, discovered in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, in September 2014.
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