from Lews Castle, Stornoway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides

Bracelet (fragments)

These two fragments of a silver bracelet are part of a hoard of hacksilver buried at Lews Castle at Stornoway on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides sometime between 990 and 1040.

The bracelet was decorated with two parallel rows of punched dots. It has a nick - a small cut made to check silver purity when the silver exchanged hands.

In the Viking world, silver and gold were used as a medium of exchange, weighed on balances. Neck rings and bracelets of silver almost always occur in Viking hoards, not graves, suggesting that their economic potential was as important as their ornamental

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Online ID:	000-100-126-804-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland X.1991.5.27.2
Date:	Deposited between 990 and 1040
Material:	Silver Silver
Dimensions:	26 mm L 46 mm L
What:	Arm ring / fragment / part Arm ring / fragment / part
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Where:	Scotland, Isle of Lewis, Stornoway (Lewis Castle) Scotland, Isle of Lewis, Stornoway (Lewis Castle)
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Description:	Part of a silver ornamented arm-ring fragment (in two joining pieces), part of a Viking hacksilver hoard from Lewis Castle, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis Part of a silver ornamented arm-ring fragment (in two joining pieces), part of a Viking hacksilver hoard from Lewis Castle, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
References:	Graham-Campbell, James. The Viking-age gold and silver of Scotland (AD 850-1100). Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1995, pp. 52, 59-60, 147-52.
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