Skaill hoard
The emptied around the year 950 Skaill Hort ( German "hoard" - English Hoard ) was in 1858, near the St Peter's Kirk in Sandwick, to the west of the main island Mainland of Orkney in Scotland in a rabbit hole discovered. The name Skaill occurs three times in Orkney.
Together with others, the finder dug up over a hundred pieces (around 7.5 kg) of the largest Viking hoard to date in Scotland . It consists mainly of bracelets, bars, brooches, hacked silver and silver coins. Two of the coins are well preserved and belong to the 10th century, one of them comes from the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelstan (king until 939). Four coins of the Abbasid Caliphate date from 887 to 945 the remainder consists of seven fragments of Kufic coins. The greater part of the hoard is now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh .
See also
literature
- James Graham-Campbell: Two Viking-age silver brooch fragments believed to be from the 1858 Skaill (Orkney) hoard. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 114, 1984, ISSN 0081-1564 , pp. 289-301 .
Web links
- Find report
- Entry on Skaill-Hort in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- The bangles with picture
- Orkneyar report engl.