Viking Belt Buckle - found at Belleshøj Mark. | MUSEUMS KOPI SMYKKER

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Beskrivelse:
Early bronze age (1500-800 BC).
The ornamented disc is the lid of a trinket box found at Belleshøj Mark.
Trinket boxes were worn by the bronze age women on a belt around her waist and in it she kept her toilet articles as well as small amulets such as bones of a weasel, pieces of gold, rowan-berry twig, charcoal, pebbles and other of a very curious nature.
Also available as pendant. Ø: 52 mm.

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