Early Medieval (400AD - 1099AD)
Stidriggs Hoard
The Stidriggs Hoard
- Period:
- Early Medieval
- Description:
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A hoard of iron tools, and scrap metal, buried in a lead vessel on the moors above Beattock.
Similar tool hoards are known from a few sites in England, but this is the only known Scottish example. It probably dates from the middle of the 10th century AD.
- Materials/Media:
- metal, lead, iron
- Source:
- Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura
- Accession number:
- DUMFM:1989.2.1=24
- Digital Number:
- DMMA001b; DMMA001a; DMMA001f; DMMA001g
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
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