10th-12th century AD. A silver arm ring formed as a round-section shank with repeated stamped motif of a lozenge with a pellet at the centre (eye motif?), expanding at each end to an octagonal-section bar with punched eye motifs alternating with annulets, narrow neck and domed finial. See Hårdh, B., Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic Study, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia no.25, Stockholm, 1996, for discussion. 155 grams, 11.3cm (4 1/2"). Ex Dutch art market; formerly in the Van de Berg collection, 1980s-2000s. [No Reserve]