Neck ring

More advanced types of twisted neckrings, such as those with cast imitations of twisting, and neckrings with expanded decorated terminal plates, often occur in the same finds, […]

Gold neckrings of the Migration period can be traced back to Germanic models of the second half of the third and the first half of the fourth century, as demonstrated by rich “princely” graves with heavy gold neckrings in Germania libera.

We shall now take a closer look at the so-called plaited and multi-rod neckrings that start to turn up in hoards at the end of the 9th century and are amongst the largest types of silver ring of the Viking Period (Fig. 8.12; Graham-Campbell 1999).

These neckrings would have been difficult to put on and take off, as they’re entirely rigid and 1cm in diameter thickness. Neckrings from other sites have evidence of breaks at the back, where the pressure of squeezing them off and on has eventually snapped the metal.