Isle of Wo-Man? Two 1,000-Year-Old Brooches Discovered on the U.K. Island Suggest the Presence of Female Vikings
The ornate bronze objects, believed to have been created around A.D. 900–950, went on view for the first time this month.
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The ornate bronze objects, believed to have been created around A.D. 900–950, went on view for the first time this month.
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Two Viking Brooches discovered on the Isle of Man have gone on display. They were found in December 2018 by metal detectorists John Crowe and C...
The highly decorated oval brooches, dating from around AD 900 – 950, are fairly common in Viking Age Scandinavia and were worn by females. But the lack of brooches found in the Isle of Man before now meant that previous theories suggested that only men from Scandinavia ever settled on the Island in the early […]
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