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Silver bowl

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From St Ninian's Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland

Postcard of Silver bowl.
000-190-000-976-C
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Silver bowl

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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Online ID: 000-190-000-976-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0098: National Museums Scotland
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Date: Between 750 and 825
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  • Calder, Jenni. The wealth of a nation. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland and Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing, 1989, p 118. 
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