bracteate

The bracteate is believed to have been made about AD 500.

The bracteate depicts a man's head over a four-legged animal.

The term bracteate for these coins was not used contemporarily.

The bracteate is housed with many others at the National Museum of Denmark.

This may refer to the melting of solidi as source of the gold for the bracteate.

Flowers are small and white, radial, and arranged in a compound bracteate cyme.

The bracteate was stolen in 1938 from the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities and has not yet been found.

The inscription of the Tjurkö 1 bracteate reads:

Some of the die-linked examples have similar metal compositions, while others do not, and it was shown that the loop occasionally differs from the bracteate itself.

A bracteate discovered on the island of Funen, Denmark features incomprehensible and meaningful text.

The bracteate bears an Elder Futhark inscription which reads as:

The 5th-century Undley bracteate is considered the earliest known Anglo-Frisian inscription.

The bracteate is most famous for containing a full listing of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet.

Vadstena bracteate - Another early futhark inscription.

Leafy-bracted inflorescences: Intermediate between bracteate and leafy inflorescence.

The bracteate bears a Proto-Norse runic inscription.

On the Grumpan bracteate, the runes of each ætt are separated by a row of dots.

Figure 20 Gold bracteate from Ravlunda, Scania, Sweden.

Today the bracteate is located in Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden.

The Tjurkö 2 bracteate is dated to the same period and has an inscription of just three runes that read ota, which translates as "fear."

The Grumpan bracteate was found together with two other bracteates, two gold rings, two bronze hooks, and some glass beads.

The Motala bracteate has been struck with the same die and was found at a nearby town in the same province, Östergötland, in 1906.

It is a typical C-bracteate, similar to the Vadstena bracteate, and shows a stylized head in the center above a horse and beneath a bird.

The bracteate is a type of thin gold medal, usually plain on the reverse, found in Northern Europe from the so-called "Dark Ages" or Migration Period.

Along with the bracteate was a gold ring and a piece of gold sheet: all were about melted down by a goldsmith who was stopped by a local clergyman.