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The St Ninian's Isle Treasure

St Ninian's Isle, Shetland

Pictish silver found by a schoolboy under a stone slab in a ruined church.

In 1958 a schoolboy helping archaeologists in a ruined chapel on St Ninian's Isle lifted a stone slab and found a wooden box full of silver bowls, brooches and other treasures, hidden around 800, perhaps from Viking raiders. It is the finest Pictish silver hoard ever found.

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When
Found 1958
Where
59.9700, -1.3400
Group
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Displayed at the National Museum of Scotland. Replicas are at the Shetland Museum.

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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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