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Sword Scabbard Chapes

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/* Bird (Falcon) style */
== Bird (Falcon) style ==
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''Otherwise known as the 'Birka Bird'. Paulsen's type 'Scandinavian-Varangian'. Dated from late C9th to early C11th although at its most popular in the first half of the C10th. Found Hedenstierna Jonson identifies 67 finds spread mainly in Eastern Europe from Sweden to Byzantium''[HEDENSTIERNA-JONSON 2006b:p.]
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|Archaeology =*France**[[:File:L'lle de Groix Sword Scabbard Chape.jpg|L'Ile de Groix]]. *Sweden**Astad. Eastern Influence 850AD – 950AD [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:cat.442]**Birka.*Poland**Wolin [WOV:cat.986]*Ukraine**Kiev [WOV:cat.4269]
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