Bullion rings in Viking Age Britain and Ireland
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2011-12
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Sheehan, John
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This paper examines a simple type of silver ring, here termed the ‘bullion-ring’, that occurs in several Viking Age contexts in Britain and Ireland. It is proposed that the type may be dated to the later ninth and early to mid-tenth century, and that it developed in Ireland as a convenient way of storing silver as a result of inspiration from southern Scandinavia. Its distribution patterns suggest that it may have developed in one of Munster’s Scandinavian settlements rather than in Dublin, the core of the Hiberno-Scandinavian silver-working tradition.
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Silver hoards , Bullion-rings , Ireland , Vikings , Hiberno-Scandinavians , Silver , Viking Ireland
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Sheehan, J. (2011) 'Bullion rings in Viking Age Britain and Ireland', in: Sigmundsson, S. (ed.), Viking settlements and Viking society: papers from the proceedings of the Sixteenth Viking Congress, Iceland 17-23 August. Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, pp. 393-406. isbn 978-9979-54-923-9
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