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Drinking & Blowing Horns

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/* Other shaped mountings C8th */
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 ==Other shaped mountings C8thWestern Viking / Anglo-Saxon C9th-10th==
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|Art =*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
** Trewhiddle hoard = 2 silver mounts
** Cumwhitton Grave 2 (female), plain horn rim mount [PATERSON 2014]
** Cumwhitton Grave 5 (male), [PATERSON 2014]
* Ireland
* Norway
** 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]
* 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 English 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
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