‘Buckle from British Isles found in Viking grave’

Danish Viking woman used bronze disc to hold her petticoats together.

Archaeologists “were certain that it didn’t start out as a buckle or brooch. It was a fitting from a shrine of some kind, stripped off a wooden box used to hold sacred objects. It’s therefore not a trade piece. Monasteries and churches weren’t in the practice of prying the decoration off their reliquaries and selling them to Vikings. This was acquired in a raid.”

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