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English: Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the fragment of 94-98%, the remainder being copper with small amounts of lead and gold.

The fragment has been cut from the terminal of a neckring of apparently twelve plaited silver wires and is in the form of a thick strip, expanding to one end where the ends of the wires have been hammered-welded together and later damaged by partial melting; two testing nicks on opposite edges. One face is plain and the other is decorated with three rows of closely punched apex-to-apex triangles, with only two rows at the narrower end.

Examples of silver neckrings with similar terminals are known from 10th-century Viking-period hoards in Scandinavia, e.g. from Krapperup, Brunnby, and Filborna, Helsingborg (pers. comm. Prof. J. Graham-Campbell) (B. Hårdh, 1976, Wikingerzeitliche Depotfunde aus Südschweden (Bonn/Lund), pls. 22: II, 2; and 35, 1).

The neckring fragment from near Stamford Bridge would therefore qualify as Treasure under two of the stipulated criteria of the Treasure Act: it is more than 300 years old and the precious metal content exceeds 10%.