Fishtail Pendant with ring

Replica of a Viking fishtail pendant

This replica of a so-called fishtail pendant of the Viking Age was made after a find from Gotland and dates to the 9th - 10th century.

The historical model of this Gothic fishtail pendant was found in the hoard of Krasse near Guldrupe on Gotland and is now on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.
Link to the original fishtail pendant..

The dimensions of the Viking fishtail pendant are 4.5 x 1.6 x 1 cm. With ring 5.5 cm high.
A black leather cord in 1 m length is included.

This Viking fishtail pendant is made of high-quality cast bronze and also available in real silver plated.

The fishtail pendant (Swedish: fiskhuvudformiga hängen) was worn as jewellery in the women's costume of the Vendel and Viking period from the 8th to the 10th century on the Swedish isle of Gotland.

The fishtail pendants could be made of sheet bronze, but were more often made of cast bronze and sometimes provided with silver-plated parts.

Originally, fishtail pendants were worn strung together as a kind of necklace with up to more than 30 pieces, but many of these pendants were misappropriated during the Viking Age and instead fitted with an eyelet for a chain or even converted into a brooch, whereby up to three pendants were linked together.