Product description
This drinking horn decoration is a replica of a 14th-century original excavated at Castle Douglas in Scotland (Dumfries, Galloway). The 13th-century design reaches back to the Viking period and was possibly based on an even older original. Made from bronze, it measures 5.7 cm long and 2.2 cm wide, with a shaft of 4 cm. It fits drinking horns with a tip diameter of 1.9 cm.
This 13th-century decoration was excavated in the Dumfries and Galloway region. The name comes from the Scottish original, meaning: fortification of the Frisians and Ghaidhealaibh (and of the foreign Gaels) — a reference to the mixed Gaelic and Viking heritage of the area. The region remained strongly shaped by both cultures. Even after 1263, following the battle at Largs, most of the Scottish islands still belonged to the Norse crown.
