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Jewellery created millennia ago on display─── 09:40 Sat, 16 Mar 2019
A gorgeous piece of jewellery created a millennia ago by the mighty Vikings may have belonged to a mysterious pagan sorceress.
BBC reports that the necklace, containing some 51 glass, jet, and amber beads, all radiating different colours, is now being exhibited at the Jorvik Visitor Center in York, England.
It resurfaced amid archaeological digs on a site at the Peel Castle more than three decades ago.
Situated on the St. Patrick’s Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, the Peel Castle was originally erected by Vikings during the 11th-century A.D., but the necklace is older than that.
Besides appealing to the eye, the centuries-old piece of jewellery has been further associated with spirituality.
It was extracted from a stone-lined burial site which suggested the woman who once pledged ownership on it may have been a pagan sorceress or a female shaman, laid to rest with the assets of her occupation.
In York, the necklace will be available to see until August 2019.
