Vikings: What Does Their Hair Tell Us?
Gone Medieval
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Trade in the Viking World - Is There a Difference?
Viking combs can be a mark of trade and contact. The porby tell us more about date than anything, i think. And theyeare a different ranges of designs to what you see on metal. There are very distinctive animal forms of ornament that we get on on metal work in the viking age. We just don't see that same design on combs. They can do it on bone work, as we find pieces of bone with these combed designs on but tey don't put oncombs. This is something whi really, over the last early ten years, more ord more people are thinking about in viciage objects.
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