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Archaeology Notes
Date 1960
Event ID 659245
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659245
NG55SW 4 centred 52 54.
On January 7th, 1891, two silver coins were found on the shore near Storr Rock; further investigation resulted in a hoard consisting of 108 coins and 23 broken pieces of silver being discovered. The hoard was probably deposited about the middle of the 10th century.
It comprises fragmentary silver rings, mounts, plates and ingots, and 99 coins including those of Edward the Elder (901-25), Athelstan (925-41), Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury (891-923) and Sitric of Northumbria (914-26) There are also 9 Cufic coins dating from AD 892-942.
Stevenson concludes such hoards are the result of raiding.
The hoard is now in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Accession no.I.L. 282-312).
Information from OS Recorder
(A B Richardson 1892; S Grieg 1940; R B K Stevenson 1953).
