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Wooden Chopping Boards and Bone Combs
Wooden chopping boards with Viking-style decoration and decorated bone combs in cases.
Wooden and Bone Weaving Tablets in the National Museum of Ireland
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.
Whalebone plaque on display in the National Museum of Ireland
A whalebone plaque, possibly for smoothing linen. Discovered in excavations at Cherrywood, Co. Dublin, and dating to the ninth or tenth century. Similar plaques have been discovered elsewhere in the Viking World and are associated with high-status…
Whalebone figurine on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Whalebone figurine from Fishamble Street. Viking Age. E172:4078
Whalebone Bats and Pin in the National Museum of Ireland
These two whalebone bats were found in the High Street, Dublin, while the pin was found on Fishamble Street.
Warlrus ivory roughout and gaming piece on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Roughout and finished gaming piece from High Street, Dublin. E71:9381-2
Walrus ivory plaque and pendant on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Warlrus ivory plaque and pendant from Christchurch Place and Winetavern Street, Dublin. Viking Age.
Viking Comb
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…
Although television and film often depict Vikings as muddy, filthy…
Unfinished comb plates on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Unfinished comb plates from Fishamble Street, Dublin. E172:11280; E172:9574
Unfinished antler comb plates on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Unfinished antler comb plates from High Street, Dublin.
Two antler comb cases on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Two antler comb cases from Fishamble Street. E190:3141 and E190:1199
Three bone pins from Fishamble Street on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Three bone pins from Fishamble Street. Viking Age.
The Scar Dragon Plaque in The Orkney Museum
The Scar Dragon Plaque is one of the most impressive of the finds from the Norse Scar Boat Burial, excavated in 1991. The grave contained the remains of an adult man, an elderly woman, and a child along with grave goods. The artefacts date to c. 875…
Slik fjernet vikingene lus
Vikings are often portrayed as barbaric, dirty warriors. However, archaeological finds indicate that they were well-coiffured, well-clad, and, not least, well-combed.
Skates made of horse bone and leather shoes on display in Museet Ribes Vikinger
Horsebone skates and leather shoes from Ribe excavations. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/
Polished bone cylinders on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Polished bone cylinders from Fishamble Street excavations, Dublin. Viking Age. E190:4507
Objects found in a male Viking grave near Larne in 1840, at the Ulster Museum.
Objects found in a male Viking grave near Larne in 1840, in County Antrim. The grave dates from the 10th century. On loan from Duke of Northumberland at the Ulster Museum. The objects include an iron sword, an iron spear-head and ferrule, a bronze…
Notched and perforated antler tine on display in the National Museum of Ireland
Notched and perforated antler tine from Winetavern Street. E81:72a
Illustration of detail from bone trial piece, Waterford
This intricately decorated item, discovered in an excavation in Waterford City, was a trial piece, perhaps intended to be made into a comb. It is currently on display in Reginald's Tower Museum, Waterford.