Clothing

Finds tray – Roman strap fitting

This is a Roman enamelled copper-alloy strap fitting, believed to date to c.AD 100-300. It was found this past winter by metal-detectorist Dave Arveschoug near Middle Rasen in Lincolnshire. Although most of its original edge has been worn away, the…

BELOW The first part of the ‘Fashioning the Viking Age’ project produced a ‘Textile and Tool Box’ containing reproductions of textile and fibre samples and the tools used to create them.

Fashioning the Viking Age

The designs of these outfits are based on two high-status graves, which contained some of the best-preserved Viking Age textiles in Denmark: a male burial from Bjerringhøj, dated to AD 970-971, and a female grave from Hvilehøj, dated to the late AD 900s.