Hi
Some years ago I was in the NMI and in their Viking section they had a leather artifact which we took to be a VA Baretta (Hair fixer with pin).
It wasn't labelled very well, and I didn't take a photo of it. Is there any chance (if it's still on display) someone could get me some more information on it please ? At the time I drew a sketch of it which is here -
http://www.colanhomm.org/hair.JPG
If possible I would like a photo plus an idea of what size it is.
Yours in hope,
Pete - Guthroth
Viking-age baretta
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Viking-age baretta
by guthroth on Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:44 am
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Re: Viking-age baretta
by RecycledViking on Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:11 am
Ooh yes I would be interested in this too. I believe Roisin mentioned barettas to me during our talk at Battle of the Ancients on female Viking kit. Wouldn't it be great to know that the leather one I picked up in Inverness could be used as kit? 
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Re: Viking-age baretta
by tri on Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:54 pm
The item is labelled (probably incorrectly...) as a sling for throwing stones but it looks a whole lot to me like a hairpiece.
I think one of the Viking Dublin leather books has a piece on this...stay tuned...
I think one of the Viking Dublin leather books has a piece on this...stay tuned...
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Re: Viking-age baretta
by Andrea L Redden on Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:30 pm
tri wrote:I think one of the Viking Dublin leather books has a piece on this...stay tuned...
VIKING DUBLIN LEATHER BOOK?!?!?!?!?!?
What? Where? Name? Author? ISBN?Grovel, grovel, crawl, crawl......
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Re: Viking-age baretta
by tri on Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:54 pm
Apologies! Silly me, its a piece in an article on leather finds from Dublin thats lurking somewhere in my office...will do my best to track it down.
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Re: Viking-age baretta
by Seathrun on Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:33 am
I have seen that and I saw a bone version some where too. All my books are still parked from my move last month. I think it was in one of my Irish art books.
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