🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇷 Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds

“It is a star object of the Galloway Hoard, the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, buried in AD900 and unearthed in a field in Scotland. Now a lidded silver vessel has been identified as being of west Asian origin, transported halfway around the world more than 1,000 years ago.”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/01/amazing-viking-age-treasure-travelled-half-the-world-to-scotland-analysis-finds

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