| Title: |
St Ninian's Isle and its treasure |
| Number of Pages: |
193 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph
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| Abstract: |
[HU 3620]. Definitive publication of the treasure found in A C O'Dell's excavations of 1955-9, with many illustrations of comparative material. The excavator having died, Charles Thomas attempts (pp 8-44) a reconstruction of the excavation, and catalogues and discusses the sculptured stones and crosses (including corner-post shrines). D M Wilson (45-148) deals with the treasure itself: it consists of 28 pieces of ornamented silver, together with the jawbone of a porpoise, enclosed in a larch-wood box. The hoard is not ecclesiastical but is a secular table service, Pictish in character, deposited at AD 800 + 25. Reassessment of hanging bowls suggests that they were essentially finger-bowls for table use, only suspended (for decoration) when empty. Further precision about the treasure depends on greater knowledge of Northumbrian manuscript art and of Pictish settlement sites. T B Smith (149-66) describes the complex legal question of the treasure; K Jackson (167-73) discusses the inscriptions; and H McKerrell (174-5) provides chemical analyses. |
| Author: |
Alan Small
Charles Charles Thomas
David M Wilson
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| Year of Publication: |
1973
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Ninians Isle |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Pictish (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1973
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| Source: |
BIAB
(British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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| Created Date: |
05 Dec 2008 |
