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A Proposed Translation Hints at the Origins of the Mysterious Galloway Hoard
In 2014, a metal detectorist discovered a hoard of Viking Age treasures in western Scotland. Found in a plowed field, the ...
Experts Just Decoded a Big Mystery Surrounding a Famous Viking Treasure
A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...
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 buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. At such a critical moment 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.