In 2014, Derek McLennan, a metal detectorist from Scotland, stumbled upon one of the most significant archaeological finds of the Viking Age. Hidden in a ploughed field near Dumfries and Galloway, ...
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You might be a Viking if your surname’s on this list - 30 Norse names still found in Scotland
Think you’re pure Scottish? You could be wrong. These 30 surnames still common in Scotland and the north of England may point to Viking ancestry - is yours one of them? Think you’re pure Scottish? You ...
SKAILL FARM, SCOTLAND—As an archaeology student from the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) was excavating the foundations of a large medieval wall on Rousay Island in the Orkneys, suddenly ...
The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...
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