LOT 2160 Viking Gold Bucket Pendant
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7th-9th century AD. A hollow-formed sheet-gold 'bucket' pendant with domed base; decorated with barley-twist bands, ropework and raised pellets-in-rings; slender handle. See Price, N., The Viking Way. Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, 2nd edition, Oxford, 2019, for discussion.1.00 grams, 13mm (1/2"). Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman; formerly from a private collection, Dorset, UK, formed in the 1990s. Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
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