''''Chapes with Germanic Bird Motif - Swedish-Varangian Group''''<br>
Paulsen breaks the total of 32 finds of this group into 4 sub groups: [PAULSEN 1953:pp.22-34]<br>
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'''Andrshchuk Type 3a'''<br>
''''bird''''<br>
[ANDROSHCHUK 2014:pp.15-118]
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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.]