neckring

plural neckrings

1. alternativeAlternative form of neck ring.

   More advanced types of twisted neckrings, such as those with cast imitations of twisting, and neckrings with expanded decorated terminal plates, often occur in the same finds, […]

   1963, J. J. Butler, Bronze Age Connections Across the North Sea: A Study in Prehistoric Trade and Industrial Relations Between the British Isles, the Netherlands, North Germany and Scandinavia C. 1700-700 B.C., J. B. Wolters, page 138

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   Gold neckrings of the Migration period can be traced back to Germanic models of the second half of the third and the first half of the fourth century, as demonstrated by rich “princely” graves with heavy gold neckrings in Germania libera.

   2000, Inciser Gürçay Damm, “Huns and Goths: Jewelry from the Ukraine and Southern Russia”, in Katharine Reynolds Brown, Dafydd Kidd, Charles T. Little, editors, From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 103

   We shall now take a closer look at the so-called plaited and multi-rod neckrings that start to turn up in hoards at the end of the 9th century and are amongst the largest types of silver ring of the Viking Period (Fig. 8.12; Graham-Campbell 1999).

   2007, Christoph Kilger, “Wholeness and Holiness: Counting, Weighing and Valuing Silver in the Early Viking Period”, in Dagfinn Skre, editor, Means of Exchange: Dealing with Silver in the Viking Age (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series; volume 2), Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 287

   These neckrings would have been difficult to put on and take off, as they’re entirely rigid and 1cm in diameter thickness. Neckrings from other sites have evidence of breaks at the back, where the pressure of squeezing them off and on has eventually snapped the metal.

   2013, Mary-Ann Ochota, Britain’s Secret Treasures, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN