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Drinking & Blowing Horns

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The following list of horn mounts and terminals is not intended to be exhaustive and merely reflects our attempt to categorise by region horn mounts discovered from the Viking Age. Additional finds and possible category changes are likely as our research continues.
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==Early to Mid Anglo-Saxon C6thPre Viking Age C5th-C8th== 
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** Taplow. Late C6th. Pair of drinking horns
** Sutton Hoo. Early C7th. Pair of drinking horns
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==Early European C5th-C9th==
* Denmank
** Gallehus Horns. Found in Denmark in 1639. Gold drinking vessels in the shape of auroch horns.
 
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==Irish Animal headed C7th-C9th==
** Austratt, Rog. [Petersen 1940:p.? no.48]
** Vinjum, Aurland. [Petersen 1940:p.? no.74]
** Voll, Ranem. horn with terminal [Petersen 1940:p.71 no.97 fig.79] [MacGREGOR 1985]
** Varoy, Naeroy. [Petersen 1940:p.72, 73 no.100 fig.81]
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** Island. [Petersen 1940:p.171 no.10]
** Fasteraunet. [Petersen 1940:p.171 no.11]
** Voll Trondelag, horn with terminal [MacGREGOR 1985]
* 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]
** Unknown Provenance. Mount of similar type to the Birka find. [WILLIAMS 2014:p.142, p.267 fig.38]
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Petersen considers the 17 drinking horns discovered in Norway to be of English 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