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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643575
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643575
HY21NW 14 2369 1962.
(HY 2369 1962) Brooches Bracelets & Ancient Coins found A.D. 1858 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
A hoard of Viking silver, accompanied by coins which date its deposition to not earlier than the mid-10th century, was found in a sand-hill in March 1858. The porportional content of personal ornaments was exceptionally high, but the hoard also included ring, money, silver ingots and numerous fragments of ornaments which had been deliberately cut into small pieces, as well as two Anglo-Saxon coins (one of which was datable to c. 925), four coins of the Abbaside Caliphs datable to 887- 945 and many fragments of Cufic coins.
The greater part of the hoard is in the National Museum of Antquities of Scotland (IL 1-113) but the Hunterian Museum holds two pieces.
S Grieg 1940; RCAHMS 1946.
No further information.
Visited by OS (AA) 21 May 1967.
