A pair of Viking tortoise fibulae, Scandinavia, 9th century. Bronze with greenish patina. Two-layers, oval convex shape. The upper layer with openwork ornamental decoration and five adorning bosses. Finely engraved border with animal portrayals and imitating braidwork. The interiors retaining the pin attachment, the pins themselves are missing. Cleaned archaeological discovery. Length of each cm. historic, historical, ancient world, ancient world, ancient times, object, objects, stills, clipping, cut out, cut-out, cut-outs, vessel, vessels,

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Keywords: ancient, bronze, century, clipping, cut, cut-, cut-outs, fibulae, object, objects, pair, scandinavia, stills, times, tortoise, vessel, vessels, viking, world