Viking Twisted Gold Plaited Ring. 10th-12th century AD. A twisted gold finger ring with tapering shank formed as two twisted rods.Cf. Johnson, C.E., A Typological Assessment of Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age Finger-Rings from Britain Dating from AD 600-1100, MA dissertation, UCL, 2014, item 25 (Boynton, PAS reference MCL-40E866); Williams, G., Pentz, P. & Wemhoff, M., Vikings Life and Legend, London, 2014, item 18.4.38 grams, 26.13mm overall, 19.27mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18) (1"). From a private UK collector; previously the property of an East Anglian collector; acquired in Europe in the late 1940s.In the Viking world, the status that an individual might achieve through personal qualities, war ability, social position and wealth, whether inherited or acquired through his own efforts, was enhanced by valuable clothing and finely worked jewellery produced predominantly of gold or silver. [No Reserve]