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Researchers from the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) are examining a Viking-era treasure that was found in 2014.
The Daily Mail reports.
The Galloway Hoard, as it was called, was found by archaeologists six years ago. Found it with a metal detector in a field in Dumfries and Galloway.
Among the found more than 100 items dating from the 10th century. Scientists began to analyze the treasure. In particular, it concerns gold, silver, crystal and precious stones, and fabrics that rarely survive, such as wool, linen, and the earliest examples of Scottish silk. Everything remained on the ground intact for 1000 years.
The treasure was buried around 900 AD and includes a gold bird-shaped pin, an enameled Christian cross, a decorated goblet from Europe or Western Asia, and the country’s earliest examples of silk.
“Galloway’s Treasure challenges this viewpoint and provides a unique opportunity to ask more detailed questions about how and why people collected treasure during the Viking Age. We have already learned a lot from conservation work and people will be able to see it at the next exhibition. ” – said Martin Goldberg, Chief Curator of Archeology and Medieval History, added that the exhibition will take place at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh from February 19 to May 9.
Perhaps the Galloway treasure could have been deposited by people who considered themselves part of the English-speaking world and could be local residents.
Galloway has been a part of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria since the early 8th century and is known as the “Saxon Coast” in Irish chronicles as early as the 10th century.
One of the most interesting elements of the treasure is the Anglo-Saxon silver cross. On each of the four sides of the cross there are symbols of the four evangelists who wrote the New Testament Gospels: Saint Matthew, Mark (Leon), Lucas (Cows), and Juan (Eagle).
“Many items are wrapped in cloth, including the earliest examples of Scottish silk, which could travel thousands of miles to reach Scotland.” – say the scientists.
These types of wrappers rarely survive and are archaeological treasures in their own right.
Archaeologists, examining the objects, deciphered the runes engraved on them. Scientists said last year that the treasure may have belonged to a man named Egbert after the name “Egbert” was found on one of the bracelets, which translates to the modern name Egbert, common in Anglo-Saxon society.
As reported by “Apostrophe”, Silver shortage caused by the collapse of the major Bronze Age civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BC. C. uh, became the reason the appearance of the world’s first “fake money” on the territory of modern Israel.
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