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Filtering by: Creator Maldonado, Adrián Availability External link (access may be restricted) Type Conference Item Keyword Viking Age Resource Type Lecture

2022

Lecture

Viking Panic? Looking for the 9-12th centuries in Argyll

The story of early medieval Argyll is told through overarching narratives: the arrival of the Scots of Dál Riata; incoming missionaries in the age of saints; and the invasions of the Vikings. A recent reassessment of the National Museums Scotland collections from this period emphasises how material culture tells a...

Maldonado, Adrián
Viking Age, material culture, National Museums Scotland , Argyll, early Christian sculpture, Gaelic-Norse ancestry and culture, hoards, Early Medieval Scotland collections, and finds
Lecture

The Crack of Doom: Viking-Age hoards before the hacksilver horizon

Viking-age hacksilver hoards (c. 880 – 1050) consist mainly of silver bullion, attesting to the rise of a metal-weight market economy. However, across Britain, there is a brief window of time in which the rate of hoard deposition begins to accelerate, but before hacksilver becomes the dominant component. In light...

Maldonado, Adrián
Galloway Hoard, Cheshire hoards, Chester, Wirral, Early Medieval , and Viking Age