bear toothamulet kalvola 9th 11th centuries bronze Piraten kleding with an inner ring with

with an inner ring with a 23 mm diameter

were constructed from multiple steel pieces

Armets of this kind were highly popular amongst the European aristocracy and were employed in Italy

It features a movable visor and a long neck guard

like the doublets of the period

bear toothamulet kalvola 9th 11th centuries bronze Piraten kleding with an inner ring withThis amulet in the shape of a stylized bear's tooth is a replica of a Viking Age find, excavated from a body grave in Kalvola, Hme (Finland), and dating between the 9th and 11th centuries. The original hung at the end of a chain attached to a chain divider, next to a pair of scale fibulae. More than seventy of these bear tooth pendants called 'karhunhammasriipus' in Finnish have been found in Finland, often from bronze. It amulet reflects an early,