Browse Items (101 total)

  • Collection: Vikingskipshuset

A small bucket with brass hoops and handles. It is made of yew.

A selection of gilt bronze mounts from the Gokstad burial.

Combs made from horn.

Part of a box found in the hole dug by the grave robbers. In the foreground of the photograph is a clasp from a box.

This chest had been broken into by grave robbers. When found, it still contained two combs, and pieces of leather and cloth.

A handle with zoomorphic designs.

The wooden lid of a box with a lock made of horn or whale baleen. At the back of the photograph is a handle from a box.

A wooden chair made of beech, and shoes of soft leather. The illustration beside the chair depicts the traces of paint that remained on the chair.

Small pieces of wood with carved decoration. Their function is unknown.

A stick with a runic inscription. It reads 'litiluism' which has been read as 'litill vis ma

Part of a decorated wooden bed.

A wooden yarn winder made of beech, wooden spindles from drop spindles, a spindle whorl, and fragments of yarn found in the burial.

A wooden box with a lid (left), shears (centre) and a flax beater for processing flax (right)

A decorated wooden vessel.

A turned wooden cup.

A wooden box made of beech.

A chest made of oak and decorated with iron studs.

A lamp. It would have been filled with oil and a wick placed in it to provide light.

A smoothing iron for ironing clothes and cloth.

A wooden box with a lock. It contained tools for weaving when found.

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