Bracelets, coin & textile (fragments)

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This lump of seven bracelet fragments, a coin fragment and textile remains is part of a hoard of hacksilver buried at Lews Castle at Stornoway on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides sometime between 990 and 1040.

These objects have not been cleaned. When found, the seven bracelet fragments were fused with the remains of a coin. Textile fragments are also preserved in the lump, showing that the hoard had been wrapped in cloth.

Textile remains rarely survive from this period, or were cleaned away before their significance was realised. Enough textile fragments survive from this lump and around other hacksilver in the hoard to show that the fabric was a linen tabby of medium quality.

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• Online ID: 000-100-126-806-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.1991.5.28
• Date: Deposited between 990 and 1040
  
• Material: Silver
  Arm ring / fragment / lump
  
• Dimensions: 38 mm overall L
  
• What: Arm ring / fragment / lump
  
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• Where: Scotland, Isle of Lewis, Stornoway (Lewis Castle)
  
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• Description: Seven silver arm-ring fragments in a concreted and uncleaned lump, 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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