Lokrume helmet fragment
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lokrume-helmet-fragment-178-13760122
title:
Lokrume helmet fragment
text:
The Lokrume helmet fragment is a decorated eyebrow piece from a Viking Age helmet. It is made of iron, the surface of which is covered with silver and features an interlace pattern in niello or wire. Discovered in Lokrume, a small settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland, the fragment was first described in print in 1907 and is in the collection of the Gotland Museum. The fragment is dated to around the tenth century AD, on the basis of its interlace pattern; similar designs appear on tenth-c
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description:
Decorated fragment from a Viking Age helmet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokrume_helmet_fragment
date created:
2018-01-01T04:28:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T22:11:34Z
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