Wire

Description

Portion of knitted silver wire, one of a group of forty four fragments of brooches and rings including two globular ends of large brooches and a portion of knitted silver wire, from Skaill

Museum reference

X.IL 101

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Wire

Materials

Silver

Collection place(s)

Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Maldonado, A. 2021. Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland.

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

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