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2022

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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
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'The Viking-age Reuse of Insular Metalwork From Northern Britain'

The looting of Christian shrines and reliquaries in the Viking Age is so well-documented that it has been reduced to a cartoonish vision of pillaging heathens. A close look at the evidence for such ‘looting’ tells a different story – or rather a number of different stories. A recent reassessment...

Maldonado, Adrián
Christian shrines and reliquaries, National Museums Scotland collections, Viking-Age Scotland, Insular metalwork , material culture, The Glenmorangie Research Project , and object dispersal and reuse