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The only surviving Viking Age helmet. It is on display in Oslo

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A comb on display at the Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo

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The Källunge weather vane from Källunge, Gotland, Sweden was once on the church there. It is decorated in a transitional Mammen/Ringerike style.

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The Museum of London has an online collection with photographs of Viking Age artefacts. This item is a search in the collection for these artefacts.

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Ulster Museum has a small collection of Viking Age artefacts

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A Viking comb and a bronze pin found at Larne, County Antrim, and are on display in Ulster museum, Both items were found in 1840 in a male Viking grave dating to the tenth century.

Although television and film often depict Vikings as muddy, filthy…

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The Gjermundbu helmet is the only Viking Age helmet that has been found in Norway. It was found in a burial mound near Haugsbygda in Ringerike in 1943 along with remains of mail armour, 2 spears, 2 axes, 4 shield bosses, spurs stirrups, and several…

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A belt buckle form Eri in Lærdal is thought to be connected to the craftsman who worked on the Oseberg ship. The motif on the belt buckle is almost exactly the same as a central motif on the Oseberg wagon.

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These tablets would have been used for tablet or card weaving. This is a technique for making narrow decorative bands of the sort that would have decorated the hems of Vikings' clothes.

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This mould was almost certainly used to make the star-shaped kite brooch that is displayed beside it. Both were found on the same site.

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This display shows pieces of amber and beads made from amber that were found in Fishamble Street, Dublin

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These carved bone pieces were found in Winetavern Street and Fishamble Street, Dublin.

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These two whalebone bats were found in the High Street, Dublin, while the pin was found on Fishamble Street.

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An iron stirrup and a silvered spur. The museum information board notes that the Vikings probably introduced spurs and stirrups to Ireland, and that this pair are among the earliest known from Ireland.
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