Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Discovered in 2014 near Kirkcudbright, the Galloway Hoard became one of the UK’s most significant archaeological finds of the ...

Owner of immensely valuable Viking Age ‘Galloway Hoard’ of silver and gold finally found - Hoard was discovered in 2014 ...

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A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

The Vikings arrived in Scotland in longboats, attacking buildings and people. They occupied large parts of the country including Dalriada. The Scotti moved into Pictland, where the Picts were too ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was uncovered ...

Men dressed as Vikings for a fire festival in Shetland, Scotland, in January. A thousand years ago, ... [+] at least in Sweden, Vikings had surprisingly sophisticated dental habits, new research ...

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age “community property” is now the focus of a new exhibition in Australia Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent In 2014, a metal detectorist ...

Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...

Newly deciphered Viking Age runes carved inside a 1,100-year-old silver arm ring from Scotland suggest that the ornament and the hoard it was buried with were owned by a community, rather than by ...