Viking Period Silver Jewellery Group
8th-10th century A.D. A mixed group of silver jewellery items comprising: a free-running axehead pendant suspended on a silver ring with overlapping arms and coiled sleeves; an earring composed of a tapering round-section penannular hoop, graduated conical knops to each terminal; an incomplete and misshapen penannular hoop decorated with flowerhead collars, filigree rings to each upper and lower face. Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.106, 108. 19.9 grams total, 34-50 mm (1 3/8 - 2 in.). Acquired in the late 1990s-2000.Property of an East London gentleman. [3]