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10th Century Weight, Kirkton
Viking period weight from Kirkton. The decoration belongs to the insular style of the ninth cent
Worked Antler
Pieces of roughly worked antler. the slotted and holed pieces are probably rough handles for tools.
Lead Ingot with cut marks
Part of a large ingot of lead, this piece has thin incised lines scored on one face - possibly as ma
Fragment of decorated gold foil
Cut small thin strip of gold, decorated with punched dots and with a hole in the centre of a rounded
Decorated Lead Weight
The decoration belongs to the insular style of the late ninth century which is found in Ireland, the
Domed Lead Ingot, Whithorn
A small plano-convex lead ingot, or waster, of lead. From its shape it appears to have been melted i
Jet Bangle Fragments, Whithorn
Shale Bangle Fragments, 8th century in date. Two of the ten fragments of shale bangles found at Whi
Cut piece of silver ring money, Whithorn
Cut end of a piece of diamond-section silver ring money. Silver ring-money is characteristically
Viking-period lead trough for processing cat pelts
This is one of the two large lead vessels from Whithorn. They were found in association with a numb
Silver Hiberno-Norse penny
Coins were struck for the Norse kings of Dublin between 995 and 1150. The coins are generally imit
Silver penny of King Cnut
Canute was crowned King of England in 1017. Under his name the country divided into the four great
Viking-period ring pins
A group of ring pins, so called because of the distinctive ring at the top or head of the pin. Most
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