Viking Age Feast Gear Class Handout pgs 13-15 Metal ... - Olvik Thing

The animal motifs on this bowl are very
similar to the animal motifs on the silver gilt
cups from both Halton Moor in Lancaster and
Harrogate in Yorkshire. This silver Arabic
vessel was found in a Viking site in Russia
(Haywood, p. 190).
Silver Bowls
This detail of the Lilla Valla bowl’s inner incised
pattern shows a gripping beast (Graham-Campbell &
Kidd, p. 176).
The Lilla Valla, Gotland, Sweden, drinking bowl has an intertwined design around its outer rim that falls
somewhere between the Viking Ringerike and the Urnes styles of ornamentation (Wilson, p. 129).
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Detail of the sides and bottom of one of the St.
Ninian’s Isle bowls, showing the designs worked
in dots all over it (Youngs, p. 109).
“The Ormside Bowl (diam. 14 cm). Probably found in
a Viking’s grave at Ormside, Cumbria, and now in the
Yorkshire Museum, this sumptuous little silver bowl
with gilt copper lining may be an indication of secular
taste in late 8 th -century Northumbria. Its plant ornamentation
is Northumbrian style, but its ‘menagerie’
has Carolingian affinities.” (Campbell, p. 115)
Detail of the loop and the escutcheon of the St.
Ninian’s Isle hanging bowl (Ritchie, p. 20).
Two small silver bowls found in the Pictish silver hoard from St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland (Ritchie, p. 20).
The one on the left has 3 rings around its rim, which could have been used to hang the bowl. Both bowls
have decorative escutcheons in their centers. There were 6 other bowls found in this hoard.
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These two metal bowls from Gotland are most likely wash basins (Thunmark-Nylén, Tafel 286).
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