I don't know. It's difficult to see its size. Appears to be (but may not be) solid gold. Needless to say, it was worth a fortune when it was made and worn, and probably is still very valuable.
In early 1979, my family visited York (my mom's family all live there) and saw the Jarvik site when it was just a research site begging for money (they sold us Viking artifacts like blades for 10p/each to raise money for the actual research!) At the time, they were hoping to raise money to keep from having the Viking site covered up by a parking lot. I was there almost ten years later, and you went under the parking lot to get to the museum and see the re-created Viking site. Wish like heck that my parents had kept the chiselled stones from the six year old I was, as the adult me would really love to have a piece of my family's history!
LOVE reading anything about Jarkik,have visited a few times, and as it pushed me into a career as a history teacher!
THANKS FOR THE POST! (as always)
Where did they find this among the guys stuff? I wonder if it was stuck back in a drawer some place and forgotten about.