Hands on History: Rare Viking Treasure
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- A unique discovery, a glittering hoard of beautifully crafted objects in silver, gold and crystal, buried in the ground and forgotten 1100 years ago.
The Galloway Hoard opens an extraordinary window into the Viking Age, a time of upheaval in South-West Scotland where it was discovered, but also a time of long-distance trade and pilgrimage, revealed by its most precious objects.
Medieval historian Helen Carr joins the experts from National Museums Scotland to explore and understand this incredible group of objects. One in particular has never been seen in public before, a fascinating lidded silver vessel that is believed to have come all the way from what is now Iran to Galloway. Helen witnesses it being meticulously conserved for its first display.
To find out more you can visit the excellent National Museums Scotland website where there is a wealth of information about the Galloway Hoard and where it can be seen. www.nms.ac.uk/...
The lidded silver vessel is on special display at the British Museum's Silk Roads exhibition.
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Helen Carr is an excellent historian and great writer. I’m glad she did this story for HH. This find is incredible!
Thanks I had know idea. An introduction of the host would of been nice..
This is one of the most fascinating ancient jewelry collections I've seen.
Wonderfully presented with structure and subtlety, without any annoying music or artiface.
Thank you so much🙏
Amazing! I went to the exhibition in Kirkcudbright a few years ago and can’t wait to see it again in Edinburgh
This is amazing! I’m seeing a Viking, having stolen many of these items from people of the church, and other people, and had to bury it quickly when a battle was in motion.
Fascinating, beautiful work. Never heard this story. So glad it was brought forth. Someone wanted to protect their family or community wealth and heritage. Wow.😍
I wonder if the dirt balls with gold was a way of keeping the gold dust and tiny pieces together until reclaimed at a later time.
I thought the same.
The stone for testing the quality of gold should have given them a clue it has to be a goldsmiths/ silversmiths stock as you said the dirt balls would be a way of keeping the smallest parts of gold for later
Amazing artefacts! Really interesting, this.
Nice one Helen and team! 🌟👍
An incredible find!
I find it strange that a number of people are complaining about the music. I personally found the objects & the information provided about them so interesting that I never even noticed the music. It was only on reading these comments that it registered and even then only on the second viewing and still didn't find it annoying or somehow trying to be mysterious. Odd
Thats because the background music is designed to lead your emotions ..its an old trick but they overdid it.
@caledonianson927 I'm sorry but no. It neither led me or tricked me. I was just more interested in what was being discussed. Stop looking for conspiracies that simply don't exist
Amazing,reading the comments after watching this, I never heard the music, I was listening to every word and studying the detail of each object to notice the music. Great find
Thank you so much Helen. Amazing finds indeed! Regards, John.
This is phenomenal
Thank you. Very interesting.
Breathtakingly beautiful. I am always struck by the workmanship in objects like this. The ability to create such fine and tiny detail without modern magnification amazes me ❤🔥
It's quite likely that rather than being a "Viking" hoard, the hoard actually belonged to a local Anglo-Saxon - the only truly "Viking" element of the hoard is the silver bullion, which is typically of Irish Viking make (multiple silver bars perfectly conform to the standardised units of measurement in Viking Dublin) but even they are inscribed with multiple Anglo-Saxon names, written in Anglo-Saxon runes - no Viking would be putting Anglo-Saxon names on their silver. Also, many of the items found in the hoard, including the seven brooches, two hinged silver straps and the cross, are in the Trewhiddle style, which was a style exclusive to the Anglo-Saxons, and popular throughout England and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world at the time, including Galloway. As pointed out in the video, the rock crystal jar had another Anglo-Saxon name inscribed on it, so we can check that off as Anglo-Saxon too - on the other hand, none of the non-bullion items in the hoard would indicate a Viking material culture, such as the Borre style, popular around the time the hoard was buried.
The name Galloway comes from the Gaelic phrase i nGall Gaidhealaib, "of the Foreign Gaels", and clearly refers to the Gaelic-speaking Vikings from the Irish sea settling this part of Scotland. But Irish sources from the period immediately prior to when the Galloway hoard was deposited refer to the Galloway coast as "The Saxon coast", and the region had been ruled by the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria for centuries, where there is strong evidence of Anglo-Saxon presence such as the Ruthwell Cross, also in Galloway, a Christian high cross inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes, quoting the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood.
To quote the book "The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure", published by National Museums Scotland, "the Galloway Hoard seems to capture that moment in history where cultural, political and linguistic change was imminent." Perhaps the silver bullion was acquired through trade by a wealthy local Anglo-Saxon to facilitate trade in the Irish sea, so dominated by Vikings at this time, and deposited in the ground to protect it from those same Vikings, who had decided to acquire the land through violent conquest? Speculative, of course, but makes the most sense in my opinion, considering the evidence!
Background music/noise is so unnecessary
I seen the hord when it went on display in the national museum of Scotland and it was truly an amazing hord
Fascinating
That Sasanian pot was already 200 years old (likely) when it arrived in the Levant. What we landlubbers often consider a barrier - the sea - was the means of travel for ancient peoples. Too much good stuff found in Galloway, Orkney, and elsewhere to ignore that concept. Well played.
Wonderful discovery. Thank you for sharing.
I've seen it in person and it's so amazing 😊
Incredible history, thank you for making this video , to all the amazing talents of those who analysed and preserved this wonderful hoard and let’s not forget the detectorists who followed the code of reporting their finds so that history was preserved for future generations to contemplate the world that was🙋🏻♂️🙏
Astonishing!
More of this kind of content!
Fascinating stuff
Love Viking stuff.
Anglo Saxon
The arm rings were Viking as not used by Christian AS in this period. Cheers
@@antonyreyn They were used as silver bullion, which was currency in the Viking-dominated Irish Sea at the time, not only as arm rings, and they have multiple Anglo-Saxon names inscribed on them, as the video stated. This is without mentioning the Trewhiddle style cross, brooches, and silver hinged rods, a style unique to the Anglo-Saxons, and the rock crystal jar, inscribed with another Anglo-Saxon name. The hoard shows every sign of having belonged to Anglo-Saxons
Very interesting! Great work and shoes how travel in the medieval times
Awesome!
The carved rock crystal decorated in gold was described as a jar, what would have been kept inside?
Some sort of relic containing soil or water from a holy place?
Maybe perfume water?
I would guess anointing oil, since it belonged to a bishop.
Could do without the irritating music. Great otherwise.
Wonderful find and presentation! Could do without the sound effects though.
Does NOT need the background music. This is a documentary not a fiction
For a second there the thumbnail had me thinking, what's George been hiding ??
The Mud Balls: His Theory isn't accurate for these.
The little mud balls were used to: "Pick up the flakes of Gold Leaf Flecks" after Gilding a piece of jewelry.
Again, these belonged to an Irish "Goldsmith/Jeweler"
After they they collected the flecks, they could dry and layer they could be water melted and regather the remaining gold.
Just like when one "Pans for Gold".
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
Tennessee, USA
(Irish American/Chicago, with lineage of County Kerry, DNA: Basque and Ashkenazi Jew Origin)
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Fact Notes: Those are more likely Irish Ogham Writtings on the Bracelets. The Irish were expert Goldsmiths. Now DNA has proven that the "Tribe of Dann" aka "Tuatha de Dannan" did go to Ireland and their lineage is found in the Modern DNA.
The Scotts spoke Gaelic before any Anglo Saxons arrived.
The question is why those balls of dirt were considered so valuable that they were deposited with silver, gold and crystal items, if any old ball of dirt would have worked just as well. Also you're wrong that "Scots spoke Gaelic before any Anglo Saxons arrived." - Gaels first began to settle western Scotland around the 6th century from the Irish Kingdom of Dál Riata, which is precisely the same time Anglo-Saxons began to settle south-eastern Scotland from the Kingdom of Bernicia. Prior to this Scotland spoke either Pictish in the north or Brittonic in the south
It would be better to leave the border area black when displaying vertical images. Blurring the background is a bit distracting.
Absolutely amazing, fascinating and brings new light to the viking age Britain
Wow, beautiful find. Do they think it was perhaps plundered from somewhere and bought to Scotland or else the owners themselves buried it. 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
I would love to see a demonstration how these objects could have been made. So intricate and time consuming.
Cool 😎
Hyguald's pendant is both spectacular and immensely intriguing! The link with Vatican treasures and the age of ~200 - 400 CE really tickles my synapses - long before Augustine of Canterbury arrived - King Lucius, Philip the Apostle, or Joseph of Arimathea? All of which are now seen as wishful thinking by later Christians. So who? Or was it brought over by Augustine or a later ambassador? The former seems more likely ...
This looks like the stock of a group of silversmiths. Maybe a master and 3 apprentices. There are ingots, partially worked and fully worked silver. This is an artisan hoard. The non silver items are to be mounted in silver.
I missed who found the treasure in the field?
Exactly
Those runes are Anglofrisian futhork runes...
Somebody says something about viking treasure I click so fast it's like a lightning bolt from Valhalla😂😂
i'm not certain why it's assumed there were mixed people of both anglo saxon and norse because of that horde... it seems possible to me the anglo-saxon initialled rune bars may have been captured treasure or treasure that was recaptured...
My favorite hoard. Second is the gold coins found in California. I dream of finding a treasure one day. My kid-like fantasy
11:09 Shame those wonderful carved stones are just sitting on shelves in a storeroom for no one to see. Thing of all the stuff hiddent away im museums in the UK. Would be great to be able to actually see some of it.
An interesting video, but the silly music was unnecessary
Id love to have 3d models to see these items in my computer!!
Love the information but could do without the dramatics. It's so hard to find good educational content without it being framed as spooky or mystical somehow. Honestly just makes the presenters look like they don't know if what they're sharing is fact or a scary story.
Couldnt agree more. The theatrics in that manner are completely un needed and irratable at best.
Absolutely true. It makes an otherwise sober and academic video seem like an episode of Ancient Aliens or Haunted Homes or something.
It looks like an inkwell stamp combo. Imo
They found bishops salt and pepper shaker for when he had hes fish and chips
Could the balls of “dirt” be evidence that the hoard came from a jeweler’s workshop? If you’re working with precious metals, wouldn’t you want a means of collecting the dust from cutting precious metals and minerals? Maybe they rolled the balls of dirt in their hands to collect the gold dust on their hands at the end of a workday. Even the elongated silver ingots and partially decorated flat silver strips looked like different stages of bracelet production with what are perhaps customer’s names etched in them.
The question is why those balls of dirt were considered so valuable that they were deposited with silver, gold and crystal items, if any old ball of dirt would have worked just as well
@@barnsleyman32 In the video they explained that the balls of dirt had flecks of gold throughout. That’s why they were valuable. But the archaeologists were really stretching to explain what the meaning of the balls was.
Very interesting indeed. Thank you for sharing it.
Can you imagine how mentally stimulating and heart warming it would be, to actually talk with the ones who cherished these objects and those who crafted them? What enjoyable hours will be enjoyed listening to stories of such ones after they return in the future resurrection that Christ Jesus foretold at John 5:28,29.
Having examined the evidence for themselves, countless men and women were willing to lose their lives to share such Bible truths with others. William Tyndale payed dearly for declaring his faith in the resurrection hope and making the Bible available to the common man, knowing full well, of the wealth that the immortal soul doctrine was bring into the Church, with it's sale of indulgences, and prayers to get souls out of fictitious place called Purgatory.
I would say that the jar or bottle was commissioned by a Bishop and used to carry holy water for special occasions.
is the rock crystal thing for the bishop a stamp for sealing documents? it looks like one, I heard him describe it as a jar but it seams strange to me to have a name and occupation on the base of a jar where no one would see it, unless the jar held the ink to be used with the seal and the sponge plate for dripping it into is missing. just a thought.
That's what I thought aswell
Interesting for sure, but the unnecessary sound effects and terrible background music make this a pain to watch. Why o why did they ruin this documentary?
Unfortunately this seems the norm for most modern documentaries.
Sound effects super annoying. Of course you need some but these are intrusive and distracting.
Headphone user warning at 10:30. YIKES ON BIKES.
Weirdly, I don’t hear the background music.
Interesting that your brain cant work around it lmfao😢😅
14:32 OMG that shallow depth of field is so annoying...
I have seen a jeweller rolling clay across their deskmat to pickup traces of metal, the comment was it was for her retirement.
The Vikings raided in the Mediterranean and traded I think. So these objects would have been bought or traded. If the dirt was from the sacred area of Christianity, then maybe the crystal jar belonged to a bishop along with the cross.
How many other good looking archaeologists are there out there? I got the wrong trade 😂
A pendant on a silk chord ... silk would have come from China? How common was silk in 10th C. Scottland?
Love the academic team gingerly tiptoeing around the hidden loot that was probably the result of violent thuggery
The finds around the World are truly delicious works 8f Creative Talents.
Their descriptions and Histories are, however, most often quite so absent in their greater facts as "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists" become so woven into the web of their "19th Century Theory based Beliefs, Paradigm, and Linear Timeline" they use as their foundation of fact .
It was recently so well referenced by a well respected Scientist/Mathematician and Author, as "Mainstream Academia Dogmatic Orthodoxy".
Discernment rather than Judgemental, but a necessary statement for understanding, as we are actually emerging into a greater Clarity, with Science based facts, and returning to "Authentic Academics", which adheres to the "Standards of Science and Research" (... which prohibits using a Theory as Fact, and/or beliefs as validations).
In the XII century significant events take place, as described in the Gospels: the coming of Jesus Christ, his life and crucifixion, although the existing text of the Gospels was edited and most likely dates to the XIV-XV cc. In the mid XII century, in the year 1152, Jesus Christ is born. In secular Byzantine history he is known as Emperor Andronicus and St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called in Russian history he was portrayed as the Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky. To be more specific, Andrey Bogolyubsky is a chronicler counterpart of Andronicus-Christ during his stay in Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’ of the XII century, where he spent most of his life. In fact, the Star of Bethlehem blazed in the middle of the XII century. This gives us an absolute astronomical dating of Christ’s Life. [ЦРС], ch.1. ‘Star of Bethlehem’ - is an explosion of a supernova, which at present is incorrectly dated to the middle of the XI century. The present-day Crab Nebula in the Taurus Constellation is the remnant of this explosion.
And it should have stayed in Galloway. Museum of Scotland has enough of our treasure from the country
Small rounds of dirt from the land travelled to keep... hmm
the editing in this is so over the top lmao i cant take this video seriously
::Shashinnnngggg:: BOOONNNGGGG
Interesting, but the entire format ruins it to the point of being unwatchable.
I'm exhausted and I was all set to chill out and watch this but the sound effect at 10:38 took me out of the moment like seeing adult women in history documentaries with their hair down LMAO
Not true! In fact, I was able to watch the entire thing! In one go! Sure it probably could have been better. But it wasn’t the worst either.
Please, for the love of God, STOP with these cheap sound effects already. They are completely uncalled for. You don't make it more interesting by adding them. The people who watch videos about archeological finds are already interested. Nothing is gained by making it sound like an episode of Haunted Homes or Ancient Aliens. It's just confusing and annoying.
Gotta be a thief's hide.
A robbers hoard
Stolen?
👍👍🍺
African Vikings? 🤪
I wonder. Just because you say .it's true? I trust no one. Least of all historians and archaeologists
Tin foil hat?
That is a damn cute girl!
Loki
The sound effect at 10:38..... Aight im out. Better luck w the next one.
? What do you mean?
Wanted so badly to watch this after finding out about this discovery recently but the whole history channel style of harsh editing and spooky sounds put me off before I even hit the minute mark. Just let the experts speak! We don't need horror movie transitions every 5 seconds to stay interested promise!