'''Andrshchuk Type 3a'''<br>
''''bird''''<br>
Androshchuk dates this type to the 10th century [ANDROSHCHUK 2014:pp.15-118121]<br>
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Otherwise known as the 'Birka Bird'. Dated from late C9th to early C11th although at its most popular in the first half of the C10th. Hedenstierna Jonson identifies 67 finds spread mainly in Eastern Europe from Sweden to Byzantium [HEDENSTIERNA-JONSON 2006B:p.]