Ingot / silver

Description

Early historic or viking cast silver ingot comprising an irregular tapered rod with rounded ends, from Whitmuirhaugh, Kelso, Roxburghshire

Museum reference

X.2005.6

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Ingot / silver

Date

Early Historic
Viking

Materials

Silver

Collection place(s)

Whitmuirhaugh, Sprouston, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Finder: Turner, N.J., 2004 (fl.)

References

Blackburn, M A S and Bonser, M J ‘A Viking-Age silver ingot from Easingwold, Yorks.’ Medieval Archaeol, 34 (1990), 149-50.

Smith, I M ‘Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an early Anglian centre of the eastern Tweed Basin’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 121 (1999), 261-94.

Maldonado, A. 2021. Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland.