The ring is made of 95% gold and weighs over 300g. In Viking England, armlets were given by powerful lords to secure allegiance from their followers. Bestowing such gifts was a demonstration of ...

This is an elaborate and rare form of 9th or 10th century Viking gold ring. It was found during the excavation of a drainage ditch in Sedbergh. It is a double-banded hoop made from a gold strip ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...

Viking hoard and medieval signet rings are ... and garnet artefacts from Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire, and a gold signet ring from Central Bedfordshire, which features an engraving of a ...

A replica of this gold octagonal ring is one of the items visitors can hold The public can find out how a Viking hoard feels when replicas of the treasure, discovered in Herefordshire, are made ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a ... The hoard also included a 9th-century gold ring, a crystal rock pendant, a dragon's head ...