You see a curved drinking horn placed on the long wooden table. As evidence of a lifetime of use, the horn is careworn, but ringed and ornamented in precious metal. Taking up the horn, you detect the sweet scent of mead on its lip, but you know that this vessel has likely been filled with ale, mead, wine, and other fermented beverages since its creation! This one (appropriate to its name!) is made of bone, but drinking horns could also be made of glass, or bound with leather and precious metals, like the ones on these sites:

http://www.finestprospect.org.uk/Saxon/Saxon.htm

http://www.heorot.dk/mead-horn.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~odindis/img/Hornlog2.jpg

Horns also appear in Anglo-Saxon and Viking artwork... check out this 9th century Pictish image from Scotland of a drinker on horseback (not very safe, I think!)
http://www.historicimpressions.com/PictDrinkS.jpg

And this 8th-9th century Scandinavian picture stone, which depicts a Valkyrie offering a drinking horn to a rider:
http://www.gotmus.i.se/1engelska/bildstenar/bilder/bild_broa_halla_a1.jpg