Mystery necklace!

[glasseye]

Hey viking_food_guy! Here's a picture and description of that Viking coin necklace we talked about back at June Faire:




The caption reads:

"Part of a necklace made up of 32 silver Arabic, Byzantine, and English coins. All but one of the English coins, five of which are shown here, are of King AEthelred the Unready, struck between 991 and 1017. The other is of Harald, 1037-1040. It was part of a large hoard of silver, with a little gold, weighing in at about six kilograms found at Hjortsberga, Johannishus, in Blekinge, Sweden. It was deposited after 1120."

Peter Sawyer, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford University Press, 1997, p 63.

AHA! I just found a further attribution in the "list of colour plates" section at the beginning of the book:

Silver Necklace
Statens Historiska Museer, Stockholm/Christer Ahlin

Which appears to have a website here: http://www.shmm.se/

Hm, I wonder if it's in the anitiquities museum, the coin cabinet, or off in storage somewhere?

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[gwacie.livejournal.com]

Cool :)