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Silver bowl

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found on St Ninian's Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland

Silver bowl
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This silver bowl was found in a hoard containing 28 silver objects and part of a porpoise's jaw, 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.

The bowl is decorated externally with incised lines outlined with dots. There is a border of punched dots below the rim, which is plain and slightly thickened.

The St Ninian's Isle hoard contained precious metalwork which probably belonged to a Pictish chief. The valuable objects were buried for safekeeping, perhaps at a time of danger such as a Viking raid.

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