The Galloway Hoard

The Galloway Hoard

The Galloway Hoard is the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. Buried around AD900, the Galloway Hoard brings together a stunning variety of materials and treasures from Ireland, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and as far away as Asia. The Hoard transports us back to a critical moment in history: the formation of the political entities we now know as Scotland, England and Ireland, in a time of viking raids. The Galloway Hoard was acquired with the support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the Scottish Government and hundreds of generous individual supporters.

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    Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard
    Goldberg, Martin
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    Maldonado, Adrià¡n
    Buried at the beginning of the 10th century in Dumfries and Galloway, the Hoard lay undisturbed for a thousand years before being discovered by a metal detectorist and excavated by an archaeologist in September 2014. Four years of painstaking conservation and research has restored these rare and unique treasures to their full glory and revealed the incredible stories of the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. Join the St Andrews Archaeology Society when Dr Martin Goldberg, Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland will take us through the some of the latest findings.
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    Der Galloway-Hort
    (2023)
    Goldberg, Martin
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    Poisonous wool, silk routes and fast fashion: stories from Scotland’s archaeological textiles
    (2024-09-23)
    Harris, Susanna
    Due to Scotland’s temperate climate, textiles from the past are rare finds for archaeologists. But when conditions are just right and they’ve been preserved, they create a lot of excitement as they can offer many insights into the people who made and wore them.
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    Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard: Secrets of a unique Viking Age collection from south-west Scotland
    Goldberg, D Martin
    Buried c.AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is thought to be Scotland's earliest-known Viking Age hoars. In the years since its discovery in 2014, wide-ranging research has illuminated its eclectic and often unique contents. As a new exhibition opens, exploring the story so far, Martin Goldberg takes us through some of the latest fnidings.
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    Insights into the Galloway Hoard
    Davis, Mary
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    Goldberg, Martin
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    Presenting a complex hoard deposit – the Galloway Hoard
    Goldberg, Martin
    The Galloway Hoard is the focus of an ongoing research project at National Museums Scotland examining a complex Viking-age deposit composed of multiple parcels, with organic preservation and a variety of materials (gold, silver, copper-alloy, glass, rock crystal, minerals, leather, wood, wool, silk, linen, and animal gut). There may be different motivations behind the accumulation of certain parcels from the contemporary, and relatively common, silver bullion typical of Viking-age hoards to a range of objects that look more like a collection of relics or heirlooms. There have been several phases of engagement with the public from an initial ‘out of the ground’ display as part of the fund-raising campaign in 2017, through a pandemic phase of digital and online engagement, an exhibition in 2021 that showcased the research and conservation undertaken between 2018–2020 and a touring exhibition through 2022 that regularly updates audiences on an AHRC-funded research project called ‘Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard’ (in partnership with the University of Glasgow). This paper will outline how, as the research and conservation are ongoing, the exhibition and public programme has had to take a different tack to any presentation of a complete or finished story and has instead attempted to bring the public into these ongoing processes, responding to their questions (which are often the same as our research questions) and showing how we might try to answer those questions.
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    Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard
    (2021)
    Harris, Susanna
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    Goldberg, Martin
    Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard is a three-year UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project (2021- 2024) which aims to challenge current understanding of the process of hoarding through an interdisciplinary study of one of the best-preserved hoards found in Britain to date.
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    Galloway Hoard: Where Did the Silver Come From?
    Maldonado, Adrià¡n
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    Kershaw, Jane
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    Magnusson, Sally
    The Galloway Hoard is dominated by silver. Cutting-edge science can now trace sources of silver with greater accuracy than ever before. What might this reveal about Viking trading and raiding? The Viking Age is known for its silver treasures. The Galloway Hoard, buried around AD 900, was discovered by metal-detecting in 2014 in Kirkcudbrightshire. It was allocated to National Museums Scotland in 2017 after a successful fundraising campaign supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund. While famously containing a mix of materials, from textiles to gold, the bulk of the Hoard is made up of silver. Where did all this silver come from? There were no local sources being worked at that time, so it must have come from elsewhere. Just how far it travelled has been a subject of debate for many years. In this live online event, National Museums Scotland Galloway Hoard Researcher Adrià¡n Maldonado will join Jane Kershaw from the University of Oxford to explain how a collaboration between cutting-edge science and archaeology can reveal the sources of Viking-age silver in the Galloway Hoard. What might these sources tell us about Viking raiding and trading? And how did this silver come to be buried in south-west Scotland? The event includes a live Q&A chaired by writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson.
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