Viking-age hoard found in Scotland a decade ago had indecipherable runes — until now
Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...
Owner of immensely valuable Viking Age ‘Galloway Hoard’ of silver and gold finally found
Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was ...
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A Proposed Translation Hints at the Origins of the Mysterious Galloway Hoard
Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...
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'Fascinating' Viking Age inscription reveals who owned immensely valuable 'Galloway Hoard'
A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.
Newly translated runes shed ‘compelling’ new light on who owned Galloway Hoard
A newly translated runic inscription has shed “compelling” new light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, experts have ...
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Newly translated runes shed ‘compelling’ new light on who owned Galloway Hoard
based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. The idea that the wealth this hoard represents would be communally held is fascinating Martin Goldberg, National Museums Scotland Three of ...
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Newly translated runes shed ‘compelling’ new light on who owned Galloway Hoard
The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 5kg of gold ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the ...