Northern Europe, Viking/Norse culture, ca. 1000 CE. This is a gorgeous and highly wearable twisted silver bracelet, made to be worn by either a man or woman, and probably ultimately deposited in a hoard. Vikings hoarded precious metals, especially silver, to a great degree; for example, in Viking Scotland alone, we know of thirty-one Viking age hoards containing silver - and those are just the ones we know about - while Viking Ireland has nearly double that! Silver bracelets of all sizes were a huge component of hoards, and functioned as a wearable form of currency. This example is emblematic of the type. Size: 3" W (7.6 cm); 42.5 g

Provenance: Ex-Southern California collection

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Slight breaks to three of the wires.