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Skye
Hoard (Silver)(Viking)
Site Name Skye
Classification Hoard (Silver)(Viking)
Canmore ID 11263
Site Number NG43SE 9
NGR NG 4 3
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11263
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG43SE 9 unlocated.
A Viking silver hoard from Skye given to the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, by Rev. Donald MacQueen in 1781 (Accession no:IL 123/4).
It comprises a very small, slender piece of silver ring-money or armlet, in two fragments, and another small piece with end portion missing.
S Grieg 1940.
External Reference (2011)
Small hack-silver hoard of two fragments of ring-money dating to the 10th or 11th century. The stamp-decorated terminals on one of the fragments is unusual for ring-money, but is paralleled on a lost ring from the Burray, Orkney hoard. Called Isle of Skye no. 1 in Graham-Campbell's corpus. (Graham-Campbell 1995 p. 98).
Exact findspot on Skye unknown.
Information from the ARCH Community Timeline Course, 2011
