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Two Viking Age oval brooches - also known as tortoise brooches - which were used in a practical way by women to pin up the straps of their overdresses but were often decorated. They came in pairs - one for each dress strap - and are often...

Drawing depicting the Jelling cup - a Viking Age silver cup found in a burial mound at the site of Jelling, Denmark. It is decorated with typical Viking Age animal ornamentation, in this case of the so-called Jelling style variety, which...

Map showing some of the Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) trade routes that existed in North-West Europe during this time. Among the places depicted are such major trading centres are Hededy, Ribe, Birka and Kaupang from Viking Scandinavia; York...

Map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age, ca. 1600 BC.

Bronze Age village reconstruction. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany.

Reenactors bring childhood in the Viking Age to life, 2012. Archeon, Alphen aan den Rijn.

A 1788 oil on canvas painting, The Age of Innocence, by Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). The painting reflected a wider movement in the arts where artists were concerned with capturing the innocence of childhood, something which had been threatened...

Reconstructed Bronze Age stilt houses (also known as pile dwellings) at Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Lake Constance, Germany.

Interior of a reconstructed Bronze Age stilt house. Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany.

Viking Age bronze clothing pin (fibula) found in the Viking settlement of Hedeby, heavily decorated in the so-called Borre style (c. 850-late 10th century CE).