Picture this: it’s 1831. A man digging into a sandbank on the Isle of Lewis, a windswept Scottish island most people today couldn’t find on a map. He was not an archaeologist, nor was he on a dig. He was just digging, and then ivory-carved figures started falling out of the sand.
No dramatic fanfare. No expert team. Just a man, a sandbank, and one of the most important medieval finds in British history.
