The comb is the single most common personal object recovered from Viking Age sites.Built in piecesNorse combs are composite: tooth plates riveted between two connecting bars, rather than cut from one block. That sounds like extra work and it is the opposite, antler is strong along the grain and weak across it, so cutting a one-piece comb means teeth that snap. Building it from plates puts the grain the right way in every tooth.Hand-made in bone, antler or horn, with a fitted case.