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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Owner of immensely valuable Viking Age ‘Galloway Hoard’ of silver and gold finally found

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community.

The Galloway Hoard, discovered in 2014, has been the subject of mystery with theories suggesting it was likely buried by four prosperous owners based on arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes.

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