From St Ninian's Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland
This silver bowl was found in a hoard containing 28 silver objects and part of the jaw of a porpoise, buried in a ruined chapel on St Ninian's Isle, at Dunrossness, in Shetland between 750 and 825. The objects probably belonged to a Pictish chief.
This picture shows the bottom and sides of the bowl. The bottom was decorated with punched dots in a whirl pattern. The exterior of the bowl is decorated on the lower half with a single line of punched dots in an interlacing pattern.
The St Ninian's Isle hoard contained eight silver bowls, 12 silver brooches, a sword pommel, two chapes, two eating utensils, three mounts and part of a porpoise's jawbone. They were buried under a church's floor, presumably for safekeeping.
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