Článek trochu o ničem - nelze zadatovat, jak bylo konstatováno. Mohl to vyrobit kovotepec v kterékoliv době, i v moderní.Romantické úvahy, že by mohlo jít o prsten vikingského velmože, nemají bez důkazu žádný smysl - bohužel.
She bought a gold Viking ring in an online auction
Categories: Nálezy nejenom s detektorem ve Skandinávii
A large gold Viking ring was purchased by a woman from Norway in an online auction. She found the jewel among several pieces of cheap jewellery and trinkets that were being auctioned together online. Archaeologists say the ring is over 1,000 years old and once belonged to a powerful chief Viking
The jewel was discovered by Mari Ingelin Heskestad, who lives in western Norway. She bought not only the ring, but also other jewellery that came in the mail wrapped in an old cardboard box. But the ring immediately caught her eye because it simply stood out among the other jewellery at first sight. "It was heavier and shiny. It looked very special," the woman said.
After Mari Ingelin Heskestad showed the ring to her family, she went to the town of Bergen in the Velstland district to show the jewel to archaeologists. They analysed it and confirmed that it was a gold ring from the late Iron Age in Scandinavia. That is, from after 550 AD or as late as the Viking Age after 700 AD.
Experts at the University Museum in Bergen are now conserving the ring and it will be on display there in a few months. Archaeologist Sigrun Wølstad, senior advisor to the Vestland County Heritage Department, recalled how a woman brought the ring to the office in Bergen in February this year. "It is a rather large piece of jewellery, which was apparently worn by a man. One of his colleagues at the museum tried to put it on his thumb," the archaeologist recalled.
Similar rings have been found in the past. They were also made of gold, but also of silver. They were made by twisting narrow and wider metal threads. Such rings were often found in Viking graves. It is possible that this ring once came from such a grave but was mixed with other objects. Perhaps after the person who found it died.
The archaeologist contacted the man who organized the online auction. "He said he bought the ring as well as other jewellery in an antique shop in Norway, but the valuable item could have come from another part of Scandinavia. Maybe from Sweden or Denmark," Wølstad explained.
He said it is almost impossible to scientifically date metal objects, but the style of the ring shows that it was probably made in the Vikings between the eighth and eleventh centuries AD. "At the time Vikings gold was rare throughout the region, so the ring was probably made for a powerful Viking chieftain. It was subsequently found in his grave," Wølstad said, adding that the vast majority of jewellery from the Viking period is silver.
The ring weighs eleven grams, which is about three times more than ordinary gold rings. "Based on the photographs, I can confirm that this is a typical style for the Viking period. I mean the combination of twisted metal," confirmed Unn Pedersen, an archaeologist at the University of Oslo.
Sources: www.livescience.com
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