The long, strange journey of Viking-Age ringed pins
Ringed pins are the calling card of the Viking Age in Britain and Ireland: small, low-value metal cloak fasteners, found in dressed burials, and frequently encountered as stray finds. They have a complex trajectory, beginning as Irish dress items in the pre-Viking period. From the middle of the nint...
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ftnmscotlanddc:oai:hyku:cc523355-c741-49ed-b2bd-0bc95a063451 2023-05-15T16:48:00+02:00 The long, strange journey of Viking-Age ringed pins Maldonado, Adrián https://tagedinburgh2022.wordpress.com/programme/ unknown Theoretical Archaeology Group https://tagedinburgh2022.wordpress.com/programme/ Ireland Scandinavia burials diaspora Iceland Newfoundland Britain Viking Age Dublin Ringed pins Irish Sea trading settlements Conference Item ftnmscotlanddc 2023-02-23T23:12:46Z Ringed pins are the calling card of the Viking Age in Britain and Ireland: small, low-value metal cloak fasteners, found in dressed burials, and frequently encountered as stray finds. They have a complex trajectory, beginning as Irish dress items in the pre-Viking period. From the middle of the ninth century, they began to be mass produced in the newly-founded trading settlements of the Viking Age Irish Sea, particularly in Dublin. For a short period into the tenth century, they are found across the Scandinavian-speaking diaspora, as far as Iceland and L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland showing that they were worn by a new class of migrant seafarers. However, in Ireland and Scotland, ringed pins continued to be made and evolved into a variety of ringed and unringed styles long after they fell out of fashion in Scandinavia. A new assessment of the Scottish corpus of ringed pins is showing they were more prevalent here than previously suspected, in areas with little connection to ‘viking’ settlement. It is argued that ringed pins of the ninth to eleventh centuries had an understudied afterlife as part of the archaeology of Gaeldom in Ireland and the kingdom of Alba in modern-day Scotland. Conference Object Iceland Newfoundland National Museums Scotland (NMS) Research Repository |
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Ringed pins are the calling card of the Viking Age in Britain and Ireland: small, low-value metal cloak fasteners, found in dressed burials, and frequently encountered as stray finds. They have a complex trajectory, beginning as Irish dress items in the pre-Viking period. From the middle of the ninth century, they began to be mass produced in the newly-founded trading settlements of the Viking Age Irish Sea, particularly in Dublin. For a short period into the tenth century, they are found across the Scandinavian-speaking diaspora, as far as Iceland and L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland showing that they were worn by a new class of migrant seafarers. However, in Ireland and Scotland, ringed pins continued to be made and evolved into a variety of ringed and unringed styles long after they fell out of fashion in Scandinavia. A new assessment of the Scottish corpus of ringed pins is showing they were more prevalent here than previously suspected, in areas with little connection to ‘viking’ settlement. It is argued that ringed pins of the ninth to eleventh centuries had an understudied afterlife as part of the archaeology of Gaeldom in Ireland and the kingdom of Alba in modern-day Scotland. |
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The long, strange journey of Viking-Age ringed pins |
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