Another mysterious piece of jewelry found at Vestervang depicts a Christian cross and appears to have been created in continental Europe sometime between A.D. 500 and 750, predating the Viking-age farm site.
Another mysterious piece of jewelry found at Vestervang depicts a Christian cross and appears to have been created in continental Europe sometime between A.D. 500 and 750, predating the Viking-age farm site.
Ping!
Given the dates, this cross pin was likely pillage material.
Isn’t that the piece Indiana Jones was looking for in the movie?
I wonder how they made the indented pattern? It’s too regular to have been done strictly by hand.
This is a story for PHOTOS - not word descriptions - in this day of digital, there is no excuse -
I would love to know the other stones/colors were in the piece shown. It must have been handsome
The Vikings......friendly merchants and all-around nice guys.
Good find, thanks.
From article, an “explanation” of how a non-Viking jewelry piece was “somehow” included in the Viking hoard - an explanation that perfectly demonstrates politically-correct abject stupidity:
“A golden Christian mystery”
“Another mysterious piece of jewelry found at Vestervang depicts a Christian cross and appears to have been created in continental Europe sometime between A.D. 500 and 750, predating the Viking-age farm site.
“How the artifact arrived at a pre-Christian Viking-age farm site is a mystery. A Christian traveler may have brought it to Vestervang, or a non-Christian person at the site may have acquired it through exchange. The item would have been used as a brooch, and Kastholm said a female of “high rank” perhaps wore it on her dress.
It “tells us about close relations and networks between Southern Scandinavia and the European continent in late Iron Age, before the time of Christianization,” Kastholm wrote in the email.”
So - every explanation except the obvious one - it’s as if this was written for a Monty Python sketch.