Figure 35. 2 Ornaments from grave no. 16 , Tuukkala cemetery in Mikkeli, Savo. Characteristic of
women’s dress in eastern Finland at the end of the Viking Age are the oval tortoise brooches decorated
with plant ornament, round thin silver brooches, big thin penannular brooches of silver decorated
with acanthus ornament, and women’s knives, the sheet and handle decorated with plant ornament.
(National Board of Antiquities/Ritva Backman 1990. Copyright © National Museum of Finland.)
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