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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A Proposed Translation Hints at the Origins of the Mysterious Galloway Hoard
After years of work, a team at National Museums Scotland has translated an inscription found on an arm ring in the hoard. The mysterious message, written in Anglo-Saxon runic script, reads ...
Rune suggests Galloway Hoard belonged to community
The new translation was revealed as items from the Galloway Hoard, regarded as one of the UK's most important archaeological ...
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Experts may have solved a mystery linked to treasure from the Viking Age
It's now thought the writing on one of the hoard's arm rings, which was inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes or letters, may shed some light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, according to ...