Viking age silver bracelet fragment

[Kaaleppi]

Not for Identification - Today’s star of the show.

Was reported and asked to be sent to the museum department.

[Stevensimmons]

Very nice find, well done

[Stubble trouble]

That’s a bit special, well found.

[Kaaleppi]

An intact one would have been symmetrical and possibly a leather strap fixing it to the wrist through the loops.

[Macsen Wledig]

Not after a postcode pal but where roughly did this come from?
I mean you might be in Denmark which would kinda make this impressive but maybe not so much as if you found it say in Devon.

[Macsen Wledig]

Doh you're a Finn!
Thanks for sharing

[Kaaleppi]

Not after a postcode pal but where roughly did this come from?
I mean you might be in Denmark which would kinda make this impressive but maybe not so much as if you found it say in Devon.

Southern part of Finland

[Etruscan_Toad]

Lovely find.

Are those random scratch marks on the exterior or some sort of etched design?

[Kaaleppi]

Lovely find.

Are those random scratch marks on the exterior or some sort of etched design?

They seem to be in a a regular pattern so I believe it is decoration.

[Macsen Wledig]

Southern part of Finland

I had high hopes when I first started this hobby of finding something, anything Viking being here detecting in Lancashire and west Yorkshire, places profoundly impacted by Viking settlers, though I think Hiberno-Norse would be more accurate than the Danes who operated more and over on the eastern side of the Pennines and down into the Midlands and even London in 875?

The etymology is all there with place names. It's there in the Lancashire dialect my favourite Grandma phrase being "skreiking" meaning "crying", and it's in local familial names like Hesketh and Thwaites. It's been found in the ground with the Cuerdale and Silverdale hordes but I haven't had a bloody sniff of em yet.

[Kaaleppi]

I had high hopes when I first started this hobby of finding something, anything Viking being here detecting in Lancashire and west Yorkshire, places profoundly impacted by Viking settlers, though I think Hiberno-Norse would be more accurate than the Danes who operated more and over on the eastern side of the Pennines and down into the Midlands and even London in 875?

The etymology is all there with place names. It's there in the Lancashire dialect my favourite Grandma phrase being "skreiking" meaning "crying", and it's in local familial names like Hesketh and Thwaites. It's been found in the ground with the Cuerdale and Silverdale hordes but I haven't had a bloody sniff of em yet.

We find relatively much viking stuff here in Finland although there were no actual vikings living here, except some individual mercenaries etc. But there was a lot of trading with them, furs especially. We get quite a lot of coins from that era, middle eastern dirhems and Cologne pennies for example.

About the bracelet I don't know. It could be viking import or locally made from silver traded from them. I hope the archeologists can determine it's origins.

[Macsen Wledig]

My ignorance is showing now, I always assumed the Finns where of Viking stock. I worked in Spain for a few years innthe mid 90's in a resort popular among Scandinavians. I dated a Norweigian chick and one of my besties was a Dane. We never exactly sat discussing origins but I concluded that the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians looked upon the Finns as their slightly batty cousins.
I'm now going to look into tour history a bit more, thanks and again thanks for sharing.