Bidspirit auction | VIKING TWISTED SILVER RING

VIKING TWISTED SILVER RING - Ca. AD 800 - 1100.A Viking ring with twisted wires and a solid shank formed from silver. The top portion features four pairs of twisted wires that spiral around one another, before tapering and fusing to form the shank. A common practice seems to have been to amass a hoard of these objects and then deposit them, often in water sources like rivers. For similar see: Viking art, Thames and Hudson, fig. 73, 74.Size: D:17.32mm / US: 7 / UK: N 1/2; Weight: 6gProvenance: Property of a London gallery; previously acquired at the art market in Vienna; formerly in an Austrian collection formed prior to 2000.