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 ...
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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 ...
English seaside village home to one of the UK’s best beaches that is always quieter than its busy neighbour
AN ENGLISH village often overlooked by it’s nearby nosy neighbour now has one of the best beaches in the country. Located on ...
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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Historians 'crack the code' of who buried the 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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Amazing secrets of Viking Age hoard of gold and silver objects found in Britain are revealed after major breakthrough
A number of theories have been put forward, with some suggesting it might have been buried by four owners, based on four arm ...
'DIS IS ЇIGNA ˑF': Runic clues indicate religious community held Galloway's Viking-Age Treasure
Discovered in 2014 near Kirkcudbright, the Galloway Hoard became one of the UK’s most significant archaeological finds of the century.
Cornwall’s mystical far west — in the footsteps of Ithell Colquhoun
As Tate stages the first major exhibition of the surrealist artist, Oliver Smith follows her to the ancient stone circles of Penwith ...
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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. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the fourth and longest inscription has confounded experts, and remained ...