Info Of Inquiry Reveals Undercover Of Who Owned The Galloway Hoard

Ecgbeorht rune on silvery arm-ring [Credit: National Museums Scotland]

Dr Adrian Maldonado, Glenmorangie Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland, said: "It’s actually exciting to endure able to expose the outset major interrogation finding from the conservation of the Galloway Hoard, a message left past times 1 of the individuals who deposited the hoard 1100 years ago.

We don’t know whatsoever to a greater extent than close Egbert than his parent correct right away but there’s something actually tantalising close connecting the Galloway Hoard alongside a named person. Egbert is a mutual Anglo-Saxon name, as well as alongside to a greater extent than interrogation on the balance of the contents of the hoard, nosotros volition endure able to narrow downward its dating as well as advise only about candidates from the historical record."

"If the hoard belonged to a individual or grouping of Anglo-Saxon speakers, does it hateful they were out raiding alongside other Vikings? Or that these Viking hoards were non ever the production of Scandinavian raiders? There are other explanations, but either agency this transforms our thinking on the ‘Viking Age’ inwards Scotland."

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