Ancient Ways

The metal detectorist who found the Galloway Viking hoard will be paid nearly £2m.

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and audiences across the UK. The project focuses on the things we have made, from flint to mobile phone.

9th-11th century AD. A Viking period silver bracelet, cast as a flat-section bar; c-shaped in plan; the surface ornamented with borders of triangle punchmarks and a medial band of pellet-in-triangle punchmarks; the ends narrow, squared and slightly thickened.

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silver bracelets showing various stamps

Viking age / Finland Hollola

Bracelet, 12 century, Russia. " На левой руке пластинчатый браслет, слегка расширеный к середине и украшенный линейным, кольчатым и ложнозерненным орнаментом рис 1,12. Концы браслета несомкнутые, завернутые, и в одном из них - остатки шерстяного шнурка, которым он стягивался при ношении на руке. Дата погребени XII-XII вв." Залесьевская курганая группа. Р. Л. Розенфельдт Константиновские и Залесьевские курганы. стр 204.

Bracelet Silver and gilded The bracelet is in Ringerike-style and shaped as an animal. Hoard find,Undrom, Boteå, Ångermanland, Sweden. SHM 1318

9th-11th century AD. A Viking period silver bracelet, cast as a flat-section bar; c-shaped in plan; the surface ornamented with borders of triangle punchmarks and a medial band of pellet-in-triangle punchmarks; the ends narrow, squared and slightly thickened.

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