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    Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 2284
    e
    2290
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    Metallurgical
    ndings from a Viking Age chieftain

    s farm in Iceland
    Sebastian K.T.S. Wärmländer
    a
    ,
    b
    ,
    *
    , Davide Zori
    c
    , Jesse Byock
    d
    , David A. Scott
    e
    a
    Department of Anthropology, University of California in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA
    b
    Division of Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
    c
    The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA
    d
    The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology & Scandinavian Section, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA
    e
    The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA/Getty Conservation Programme, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90095, USA
    article info
    abstract
    Article history:
    Received 2 January 2010
    Received in revised form
    5 April 2010
    Accepted 9 April 2010
    The metalworking, metal import, and use of metal in medieval Iceland is still little understood. When the
    Scandinavian settlers colonized Iceland in the 9th c. AD, the island was found to contain no useful metal
    deposits save for bog iron, and the deforestation that followed the settlement resulted in a scarcity of
    wood. Only in the last decades have archaeological excavations begun to unravel how the
    rst Icelanders
    dealt with this lack of resources. This paper presents the metallurgical
    ndings from a Viking Age
    chieftain
    s present-day capital
    Reykjavik. The excavated metal objects had all been crafted with good workmanship employing tech-
    nology similar to that used in mainland Scandinavia. However, most excavated metal

    s farmstead at Hrísbrú in the Mosfell valley, located just outside Iceland

    Keywords:
    Archaeometallurgy
    Corrosion
    Conservation Science
    Viking studies
    X-ray diffraction
    X-ray
    nds show
    evidence of re-use, which together with the second-grade metal in some of the objects indicates
    a shortage of raw material that prompted the Icelandic colonizers to improvise and make do with
    whatever material was at hand.
    Even though this chieftain
    uorescence
    s farm was materially poorer than contemporaneous high-status farms in
    mainland Scandinavia, it was wealthy by Icelandic standards. The analytical results show that some
    excavated objects were imported trade goods deriving from both neighboring and far-away localities,
    proving that the farm was part of the extensive trade network of the Viking world. Most likely, this farm
    represents the upper limit to what a Viking Age farm in Iceland could afford in terms of material objects
    and trade goods.

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    1. Introduction
    nds excavated from
    an Icelandic chieftain

    s farm, dating to the earliest days of the
    Icelandic settlement. By comparing the material culture of this farm
    with contemporaneous Icelandic and Scandinavian sites, an
    example is provided of how a relatively wealthy Icelandic farm
    managed to compromise between the Scandinavian customary use
    of metals and Iceland
    This paper presents the analysis of metal
    While the history of metalworking in mainland Europe goes back
    to the earliest times, metalworking in Iceland only began when the
    island was colonized by the Scandinavian settlers in the 9th century.
    The settlers found Iceland to be a land of volcanic rock, containing no
    useful metal deposits save for bog iron. All other metals, particularly
    copper, silver, and gold, had to be imported. The deforestationprocess
    that followed the settlement eliminatedmost of Iceland

    s lack of metals and other material resources.
    s native forest
    of dwarf birch (Betula L.) and willow (Salix sp.) (
    Samset, 1991
    , 27), and
    it has been argued that ironproductionwas a driving force behind this
    tree-cutting (
    Smith, 1995
    ). However, the scope and nature of the
    metalworking, the metal import, and the metallurgical technology in
    the early days of Iceland

    2. The Hrísbrú site
    At the Hrísbrú site, located in the Mosfell valley just a few
    kilometers outside Iceland

    s
    capital Reykjavik,
    the Mosfell
    Archaeological Project has excavated a 10
    11th century farmstead
    (
    Fig. 1
    ). The Mosfell valley runs from the bay Leirvogur in the west
    to the highlands of the Mosfell heath in the east. The excavated site
    is located along the slope of the northern side of the valley, at
    a strategic position from which it is possible to view both the
    central valley area and the coastline to the west (Byock et al., 2005).
    So far, a traditional Viking Age (ca. AD 790
    e

    s history still remain to be fully understood.
    Corresponding author at. Division of Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories,
    Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.:
    *
    þ
    46 8 162447.
    e
    1100) longhouse, a farm
    E-mail address:
    (S.K.T.S. Wärmländer).
    0305-4403/$
    e
    see front matter
    2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
    doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.04.001
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    Fig. 1.
    Map showing the Mosfell Valley and the Hrísbrú excavation site in Southwest Iceland.
    church with an associated cemetery, and a pagan cremation site
    have been unearthed.
    Viking Age Scandinaviawas a strati
    plowing, and the stratigraphy of the soil is mostly intact up to the
    topsoil, even though the meadow has been mechanically leveled in
    modern times. For example, above the longhouse, a volcanic ash
    layer from the Katla eruption in AD 1500 was found in situ some 20
    cm below the current surface level.
    In all excavation areas, i.e. the longhouse, the church, the
    surrounding graves, and the cremation site, metal artifacts were
    encountered. Although the artifacts were heavily corroded, some
    contained enough remaining metal to allow extraction of useful
    metallurgical information.
    ed societywith a chie
    yelite
    (
    Byock, 2001
    ,66
    e
    69;
    Roesdahl, 1999
    ), and
    Vésteinsson (2004
    ,
    74
    75) has grouped Icelandic houses into low, middle, and high
    status by reference to three parameters, i.e. house size, artifacts/
    prestige goods, and historical records indicating status. At Hrísbrú,
    the longhouse measures an impressive 28m fromend to end, which
    makes it one of the largest Viking Age longhouses so far excavated in
    Iceland. The excavation yielded more imported glass beads than any
    other archaeological farmstead in Iceland (see below), and there are
    several medieval Icelandic sagas mentioning chieftains living at the
    old Mosfell farm, which was located at the site of modern-day
    Hrísbrú (
    Byock et al., 2005; Grímsson, 1886
    ). Thus, there is ample
    evidence for Hrísbrú being one of the more important high-status
    households in Iceland during the 10
    e
    11th centuries.
    Although the Hrísbrú farmstead has been continually inhabited
    from the Icelandic settlement up to the modern period, the habi-
    tation sites have changed over time, and the excavated Viking Age
    structures are located no more than 50 m from the present-day
    farmhouse. The longhouse dates from the original settlement of
    Iceland in the late 9th to early 10th century, and the small
    accompanying church was built around AD 1000. Both the long-
    house and the church are very well preserved as no subsequent
    structures or occupation has disturbed the site since it was aban-
    doned in the 11th or early 12th century, save for a small agricultural
    building located on top of the knoll where the church is located. The
    e
    3. Materials and methods
    uorescence (XRF) spectroscopy was carried out on all
    metal samples in order to characterize their elemental composi-
    tion. The XRF spectra were recorded with a tungsten lter at 45 kV/
    11 mA, and with no
    X-ray
    lter at 35 kV/10 mA, using a Jordan-Valley
    Excalibur benchtop XRF (model EX-2600U).
    X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra were recorded of corrosion
    products and bead colorants using a Rigaku R-Axis Spider unit
    employing an image plate in Weissenberg geometry to collect
    Debye-Scherrer-rings. Minute amounts of material were scraped off
    the samples and placed on the end of a rotating glass spindle, and
    XRD spectra were recorded at 50 kV/40 mA for between 600 and
    1500 s. After baseline-correction, the spectra were searched and
    matched against reference spectra from the International Centre for
    Diffraction Data (ICDD) using the JADE v8.2 software fromMaterials
    Data Inc.
    Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra were recorded with
    a Perkin
    oor of the longhouse was buried approximately 1 m below the
    surface of what is now a meadow, where the soil covering the
    longhouse has been deposited through domestic trash dumping
    inside the cavity of the house, followed by aeolian soil deposition
    from the nearby eroding mountains. This aeolian soil is slightly
    acidic (pH 6
    Elmer Spectrum One instrument equipped with a solid
    state Attenuated Total Re
    e
    ectance (ATR) sample stage. Spectra of
    corrosion products were recorded in the 4000
    550 cm
    1
    region
    with a resolution of 4.0 cm
    1
    and matched against the UCLA/Getty
    Conservation Program
    e
    7) and generally sandy, allowing rainwater to seep
    through and access any buried objects. The average rainfall in the
    valley is about 100 mm/month, and the average temperature in the
    valley ranges from
    e

    s IR database, as well as the spectral data-
    base of the Infrared and Raman Users Group (IRUG).
    Small samples were cut from some of the metal
    2
    C in the winter to
    14
    C in the summer,
    þ
    nds with
    creating yearly freeze
    thaw cycles (personal communication from
    Guðrún Gísladóttir at the Icelandic Meteorological Of
    e
    ajeweler
    s saw, mounted in Buehler transparent Epoxide resin, and
    oriented to expose the cross-sections. The samples were then ground
    and polished in steps ending with the Buehler Metadi 1 micron dia-
    mond suspension. The polished cross-sections were etched in 2%
    ferric chloride for copper and 2% nital for iron in order tomake visible
    the grain structure in the samples (
    Scott, 1991
    ). The etched surfaces
    were examined under re

    ce, 2008).
    The preservation conditions at the site are therefore unfavorable,
    and most excavated objects are severely deteriorated due to the
    exposure to a combination of oxygen and moisture. On the upside,
    it appears that the meadow inwhich the structures are situated has
    been used exclusively for grazing, never for growing crops.
    Consequently, the buried material has not been disturbed by
    ectedaswellaspolarizedlightinametal-
    lographic stereomicroscope at 50
    e
    400
    magni
    cation.
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    4. Results and discussion
    Together with two pieces of iron slag (2007-21-273; -294) found on
    the longhouse
    oor, the hammer scales suggest that small-scale
    iron working, such as repairs, took place at the site. Iron making
    using local ore has been demonstrated at different sites in Iceland
    (
    Espelund, 2007
    ), such as in the nearby Reykjavik area where
    a number of 9th-10th century smithies and iron bloomeries have
    been found (Vala Garðarsdóttir, personal communication, 2010),
    but so far no evidence for large-scale iron production has been
    found at Hrísbrú.
    The cemetery included a number of iron artifacts, consisting
    mostly of heavily corroded nails and clench bolts from burial
    features. The iron nails and bolts had remnants of wooden planks
    attached, and as these planks are otherwise completely decom-
    posed, it appears that the iron in the nails and rivets has slowed the
    disintegration of the adjoining wood. The clench bolts consist of
    round-headed nails which have been passed through boards and
    then hammered over an iron square or diamond-shaped rove
    placed around the nail (
    Fig. 3
    A). In Scandinavia, this type of clench
    bolt was typically used in the construction of ships and smaller
    boats built in the klinker style, and is also known as a ship rivet (
    Bill,
    1994; Lundström, 1972; McGrail, 2004
    )(
    Fig. 3
    B). In the burials, the
    iron nails were found along the edges of the burials, often in
    associationwith rectangular organic soil stains from decayed wood,
    indicating that they were part of cof
    4.1.
    Iron objects
    Iron artifacts were unearthed from the longhouse, the church,
    the cemetery and the cremation site.
    In the longhouse four knife blades (2006-27-48; 2007-21-106;
    -107; -110) were found on the
    ttings
    (2006-27-49; -50) belonging to a wooden construction. All four
    knives were single-edged with straight backs, and measured
    around 10 cm in length. No handles remained, suggesting that
    these were made from wood or bone which has now decomposed.
    XRF measurements showed no presence of other metals in the
    knife blades, indicating they had been crafted without decorations
    of e.g. silver, tin, or bronze/brass. As both the knife blades and the
    iron
    oor together with two iron
    ttings were completely mineralized without any pseudo-
    morphic retention of microstructural detail in the iron corrosion
    products, further metallographic analysis was not possible.
    In the church building, a knife blade (2003-41-46) was found in
    a stratigraphic layer above the church
    oor, post-dating the aban-
    donment of the church. The blade retained some solid metal under
    a thick crust of corrosion, allowing a sample to be taken for metal-
    lurgical analysis. The cross-section revealed that the blade was
    fashioned from two pieces of wrought iron, welded around a core of
    high-carbon steel, and aligned along the length of the blade (
    Fig. 2
    ).
    The ne pearlite between the acicular ferrite plates allows the
    carbon content to be estimated at about 0.2
    ns. The clench bolts, which are
    unsuitable for making square boxes, were found on top of the
    skeletons, indicating that they were part of wooden constructions
    other than cof
    0.3% carbon, and it has
    been known since the early days of iron-working that suchmixing of
    softer iron with harder steel can improve the overall material
    properties of iron objects (
    Carpenter and Robertson, 1930a, 1930b
    ).
    Unfortunately, not enough of the cutting edge has survived to make
    it possible to tell whether the steel was quenched in this area or not.
    The particular fashioning of this knife closely matches the three-
    layered
    e
    nd clench bolts or
    ship rivets in burial features, and it appears that the clench bolts
    and the decayed wooden planks that they bound together are
    recycled material from boats (
    Zori, 2007
    ). Re-use of material from
    Viking Age boats in Christian burials has previously been reported
    from Sebbersund in Denmark, although there the iron
    ns or burial biers. It is unusual to
    ttings had
    been removed for re-smelting and the boards were found below
    the bodies, suggesting to
    Birkedahl and Johansen (1995)
    that the
    re-use was purely functional. At Hrísbrú, the presence of the bolts
    and their placement on top of the body precludes a purely utili-
    tarian role of these objects, and suggests that these boat fragments
    were ritually deposited in the graves as symbolic references to the
    pagan tradition of boat burials and the ship as a vehicle to the
    afterlife (
    Zori, 2007
    ).
    In addition to the clench bolts, two other iron grave goods were
    found in the cemetery. In burial Feature 3, a nine cm long hooped
    iron dress pin was unearthed (2002-57-55) (
    Fig. 4
    ). In mainland
    Scandinavia, dress pins were used by both men and women from at
    least the migration period (ca. AD 370
    method (
    Tylecote and Gilmour, 1986; Tylecote,
    1987
    , 263), which has been employed in mainland Europe since at
    least the

    sandwich

    rst centuries AD (
    McDonnell, 1989; Ottaway, 1992
    ). This
    method does not appear to have reached Scandinavia until the
    9th
    10th centuries (
    Arrhenius,1970,1989a; Peets,1995; Lyngstrøm,
    1995
    ). Upon its arrival, it gained wide-spread popularity, and soon
    became the dominant method for steeling knives in Scandinavia
    (
    Arrhenius, 1998, 1989b; Carlsson, 2003; Lyngstrøm, 1995
    ).
    Underneath the church
    e
    oor, in a stratigraphic layer related to
    an earlier structure, small magnetic metal
    akes (2003-41-74) were
    encountered. XRD spectra of the
    ed them as magne-
    tite, Fe
    3
    O
    4
    , indicating that they are magnetic hammer scales,
    formed at high heat during smithing activities (
    Tylecote, 1987
    , 320).
    akes identi
    e
    570) onwards, and in the
    Vendel period (ca. AD 570
    e
    790) the early protuberant style was
    Fig. 2.
    Etched cross-section of knife-blade 2003-41-46, found in the church building at the Hrísbrú farm. A) The rightmost region is wrought iron, while the leftmost region is
    carbon steel. The region in between is the weaker welded interface, displaying cracking and corrosion. B) This close-up of the leftmost region in (A) shows the typical Wid-
    manstätten structure for low-carbon steel.
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    Fig. 3.
    A.) Examples of the clench bolts found in burial feature CK-2007-5 in the graveyard next to the Hrísbrú farm church. Note the decomposed wood that has been preserved due
    to close proximity to the corroded iron. B.) Clench bolts employed in two methods for joining overlapping planks (redrawn by Jennie Dillon from Ottaway, 1992, 617).
    replaced by polyhedral pins (
    Waller, 1996
    ). In the Viking Age, the
    use of dress pins declined, as women began to fasten their clothing
    with characteristic oval brooches (
    Jansson, 1985
    ). Men, on the other
    hand, continued to use dress pins which were usually made from
    bronze or brass, but sometimes they were fashioned from iron, and
    occasionally from expensive silver (
    Waller, 1996
    ). Pins with hoops
    were typically used in pairs, which allowed a chain to be strung
    between them that could be used for carrying decorative or utili-
    tarian items. A pin made from iron had multiple purposes, as it was
    sturdy enough to also be used as a tool for punching holes or as an
    awl. For
    incomplete dress pin pair was deposited in a cemetery including
    partial boat material. Presumably the excavated parts were meant
    to symbolically represent complete objects.
    4.2. Bronze fragments
    A handful of copper alloy objects and fragments were encoun-
    tered at the Hrísbrú site, and four fragments were selected for
    detailed technical examinations, i.e. 2007-21-61 found in the
    collapsed southern wall of the longhouse, 2003-41-33 from the
    church
    nd 2002-57-55 only one of the hooped pins, and not the
    full pair, was deposited in the grave. The corroded state of the pin
    precludes stylistic and metallographic analysis. To the best of the
    authors
    oor, 2002-57-68 from the cremation site, and 2006-27-16
    from the soil above the longhouse. The 2006-27-16 fragment rested
    within the tephra layer from the Katla eruption of AD 1500,
    approximately dating the
    knowledge, it is the only iron dress pin so far encountered
    in Iceland.
    The second iron gravegood is a fragment of an iron pot (2003-
    41-65). It corresponds to about 1/5 of the original vessel, and was
    found deposited in burial Feature 49. The diameter of the original
    vessel was estimated to 19 cm, and the fragment consists of two
    iron sheets welded together with a loop riveted to the pot (
    Fig. 4
    ).
    The latter allowed a chain to be fastened so that the pot could be
    suspended over a

    nd to that year. Due to their fragmentary
    and corroded nature, it is not possible to accurately determine the
    original alloy composition of the
    nds or fromwhat kind of objects
    they derive. However, X-ray uorescence analysis revealed that the
    four
    nds consist of tin-bronze alloys. This constitutes a deviation
    from the standard composition of Scandinavian Viking Age copper
    alloys, which typically contain zinc, often lead, and less frequently
    tin (
    Arrhenius, 1989c; Craddock, 1990; Oldeberg, 1966; Söderberg,
    2010
    ). As there are no tin deposits in Scandinavia, geographic
    proximity suggests that the tin might originate from the British
    Isles where tin has been mined since at least 1000 BC (
    Barton, 1957;
    Varyl et al., 2004
    ), even though other regions of origin are possible
    also. For 2006-27-16, XRF analysis identi
    re. The design and construction is similar to
    other welded and riveted iron pots from Viking Age Scandinavia,
    such as the ones found as grave goods in pagan graves (
    Fridell, 1930
    ,
    229;
    Odencrantz, 1937
    ). The typical pagan grave however encom-
    passes whole objects, while at Hrísbrú a fragment of a pot and an
    ed small amounts
    Fig. 4.
    A) Hooped Viking Age iron dress pin (2002-57-55) of West-Norse/Celtic style, found in Burial Feature 3 at Hrísbrú in the Mosfell Valley. B) Fragment of an iron pot (2003-41-
    65), found in the same cemetery. Bar is 1 cm. C) Reconstruction of the iron pot. The curvature of the fragment suggests that the pot was rather small, measuring about 19 cm in
    diameter. Bar is 1 cm.
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    (around 2% each) of lead and silver in the material, in addition to
    the copper and tin. While lead and tin are common additions to
    copper, silver is not, suggesting that the fragment was manufac-
    tured from a recycled bronze object with some silver decoration.
    Metallographic analysis revealed annealing twins, small grain
    sizes, and occasional strain lines in the microstructure of all
    samples, indicating that cycles of cold-working and annealing were
    employed to skillfully hammer the objects into their desired
    shapes. In samples from objects 2002-57-68 and 2006-27-16
    relatively high amounts of
    common in the Viking world, and while bead 2006-27-53 was
    excavated in pristine shape, formation of silver sul
    de (Ag
    2
    S) on
    bead 2007-21-179 has caused all the silver surface to turn golden,
    suggesting differential preservation conditions at the site.
    For the three yellow beads 2006-27-9, 2006-27-54, and 2007-
    21-204, XRF analysis indicated the presence of tin, in addition to
    the normal elements found in glass such as lead, silicon, calcium,
    and potassium. XRD spectra of minute scrapings of bead 2006-27-
    9identi
    ed the compound lead-tin oxide, PbSnO
    3
    , also known as
    the pigment lead-tin yellow (
    Fig. 5
    ). This pigment comes in two
    chemical forms, where type I, Pb
    2
    SnO
    4
    , is more common than type
    II, PbSnO
    3
    . Both forms are chemically stable and lightfast, which
    helps to explain the pristine appearance of the beads. Lead-tin
    yellowwas used in European easel paintings from the 14th century
    onwards (
    Kühn, 1968
    ), but its main use during the Middle Ages
    was as colorant in yellow glass (
    Estaugh, 2004
    ). Venice was the
    center in Europe for such glass production (
    Estaugh, 2004
    ), which
    makes Italy a plausible origin for the raw material in the beads.
    However, as glass colored with lead-tin yellow type II has recently
    been encountered at local glass production sites outside Italy, such
    as the Merovingian site of Schleitheim in Switzerland (
    Heck et al.,
    2003
    ), the geographic origin of the glass cannot be absolutely
    ascertained.
    de inclusions were
    encountered, indicating that the copper in these two objects was
    not of the highest quality, even though the copper must have been
    processed with some sophistication in order to yield sul
    copper
    sul
    de rather
    than oxide inclusions. In 2006-27-16, cracks were present in
    addition to numerous strain lines, providing evidence of heavy
    stress-related deformation. Possibly the object had a functional
    rather than a decorative use
    e
    perhaps as a hinge
    e
    and the
    deformation may have been related to this use.
    4.3. Beads
    A number of monochrome and polychrome glass beads found in
    the longhouse were subjected to technical analysis and found to
    contain different metallic colorants. In mainland Scandinavia, bead-
    making from recycled glass or imported glass rods has been
    documented at sites such as Ribe, Hedeby, Kaupang, and Birka
    (
    Callmer, 1977; Sode, 2004
    ). Since no glass-working sites have been
    found in Iceland,
    4.4. Corrosion and deterioration
    Due to the environmental conditions at the site all metal
    nds
    it is safe to assume that these beads were
    were heavily corroded. X-ray diffraction identi
    ed the copper
    corrosion as standard copper oxide, Cu
    2
    O, and copper carbonate,
    (CuCO
    3
    $
    imported in their
    nished form.
    Four of the beads (2007-21-142, -143, -144, and -145) have an
    intricate design pattern, consisting of a black body adorned with
    white bands together with eyes in red and blue (
    Fig. 5
    ). XRD and
    XRF analysis indicate that the white colorant is tin oxide (SnO
    2
    ), the
    red colorant is haematite (Fe
    2
    O
    3
    ), the black colorant is magnetite
    (Fe
    3
    O
    4
    ), while the blue colorant is an unidenti
    Cu(OH)
    2
    ). For iron standard oxides and hydroxides, i.e. FeO,
    Fe
    2
    O
    3
    , and FeOOH, were found together with the more uncommon
    iron carbonate, FeCO
    3
    , which previously has been encountered in
    wet environments such as Danish peat bogs (
    Matthiesen et al.,
    2003
    ). For the iron (2002-29-87) and bronze (2002-29-68) frag-
    ments deriving from objects deposited in association with the
    cremation burial (
    Fig. 6
    ), no unusual corrosion products were
    found, and Raman spectroscopy of the corrosion crust of the iron
    fragments identi
    ed copper-based
    compound. Beads with the same characteristic design pattern have
    been found at other places in Iceland (
    Eldjárn, 1956
    )aswellasin
    Birka, Sweden, (
    Arbman, 1940
    ), and in Eastern Europe (
    Callmer,
    1977
    , 97). The other nd sites all date to a narrow time window
    of AD 960
    ed incorporated particles of graphite (i.e. char-
    coal) originating from the cremation event, which explains the
    charred appearance of the pieces.
    Due to the uniform thickness of the bronze fragments from the
    cremation site it was possible to calculate the corrosion rate at the
    site. The cross-section of fragment 2002-57-68 contains a core of
    solid metal in a corrosion matrix retaining the shape and dimen-
    sions of the original bronze sheet (
    Fig. 6
    ). With the average thick-
    ness of the studied fragment being 200
    990 (
    Callmer, 1977
    , 85), which seems to be a plausible
    date also for the current
    e
    nds from the Hrísbrú longhouse. It
    appears that beads with eyes were never produced in Scandinavia,
    and
    Callmer (1977)
    suggests that the style of the four excavated
    beads originated in Turkmenistan. Most likely, these beads were
    imported along the Viking Age trade routes that descend from
    Scandinavia down the rivers of Russia towards Asia.
    Two of the other beads, 2006-27-53 and 2007-21-179, were
    manufactured with a decorative metal foil coating, identi
    10
    m
    m, and the average
    thickness of the remaining metal being 20
    3
    m
    m, the corrosion
    ed with
    XRF as silver. This technique for bead ornamentation was relatively
    layers on both sides measure roughly 90
    m. With radiocarbon
    dating of charred twigs providing an approximate date of AD 990
    m
    Fig. 5.
    A) One of the four
    (F-2007-143) found in the Hrísbrú longhouse, stylistically provenanced to central Asia. B) The yellow bead F-2006-9. C) XRD spectrum
    identifying the yellow colorant in F-2006-9 as PbSnO
    3
    , i.e. lead-tin yellow type II. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this

    eye-beads

    gure legend, the reader is referred to the web
    version of this article.)
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