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IoA/BM Seminar: Williams 16 May 2023
16 May 2023, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm
Dr Gareth Williams (The British Museum): Thor’s Hammer pendants from England in the light of recent finds
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Iain MacDonald
Location
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Room 612Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PYUnited Kingdom
Thor's hammer pendants have until recently been comparatively rare finds in Britain and Ireland. Studies of the Vikings in Britain and Ireland have tended to continue to re-state this rarity, ignoring the fact that there has been a steady rise since the millennium in the number of hammer pendants recovered both through archaeological excavations and through metal detecting, with the current corpus including more than 40 examples from England alone. This paper highlights some important recent finds, and considers the distribution, typology and chronology of the wider corpus in their wider historical and archaeological context.
About the Speaker
Gareth Williams
at The British Museum