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Drinking & Blowing Horns

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/* Western Viking / Anglo-Saxon C9th-10th */
==Western Viking / Anglo-Saxon Non Animal headed C9th-10th==
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{{evidence
*Scotland
** Bullion Stone. Pictish 900-950AD. depicts a warrior drinking from a large horn while on horseback. [http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-043-517-C&scache=4rt0ra9biu&searchdb=scran| Museum of Scotland]
 
|Literature
 
|Archaeology =
* England
** Island. [Petersen 1940:p.171 no.10]
** Fasteraunet. [Petersen 1940:p.171 no.11]
 
* Sweden
** Birka. Only a single grave had evidence for horn mounts. A pair of mounts were found in a burial of a rich female. [ARBMAN :Taf.196] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:cat.65]
* Denmark
** Unknown Provenance. Mount of similar type to the Birka find. [WILLIAMS 2014:p.142, p.267 fig.38]
|Discussion =
Petersen considers the 17 drinking horns discovered in Norway to be of Britiah origin. Paterson suggests that the relative rarity of drinking horns in the archaeological record may be due to their fragile nature and the difficulty of detecting and excavating them rather than their actual rarity [PATERSON 2014:p.149]
* Germany
** Thumby-Bienebek? Possible - nothing else known by author
* Russia
** Gnezdovo? Possible - nothing else known by author
 
|Discussion =
Petersen considers the 17 drinking horns discovered in Norway to be of Britiah origin. Paterson suggests that the relative rarity of drinking horns in the archaeological record may be due to their fragile nature and the difficulty of detecting and excavating them rather than their actual rarity [PATERSON 2014:p.149]
 
 
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==Non Animal headed C11th-12th==
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{{evidence
|Art =
|Literature
|Archaeology =
* Denmark
** Arhus. Mount decorated in Ringerike style. [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 2013]
|Discussion =
 
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