December
19
/ 2021
Researchers have revealed that what is perhaps Europe’s most famous Viking Age hoard – the Galloway Hoard – was not a rapidly concealed family treasure being hidden from invaders. Rather, it was a ritually assembled and buried treasure representing four men of different statuses in Viking Age Scotland. They’ve also found crucial evidence that some of the treasures may have come from a church in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. The famous “Galloway Hoard” was unearthed by a metal-detectorist in 2014 at Balmaghie, in Kirkcudbrightshire, in the southwest of Scotland. It was subsequently acquired for Scotland's National Collection for £2million (around $2.6 million). Containing an exotic array of materials and treasures from Ireland, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and Asia, according to
