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Old 04-09-2009, 04:54 PM
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Viking End Caps

I am presently in Iceland for a couple of weeks.Here are a couple of Viking end caps made from brass photographed at the National Museum.The 3 caps appear to be fairly thin sheet metal and the single cap appears to cast with a thickness of 2 plus mm.
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Old 04-10-2009, 02:44 PM
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Cool stuff! Thanks for posting it.
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