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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:14 pm    Post subject:

interesting ideas raised on the PAS discussion board (till the thread got a bit hijacked!)_________________

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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:23 pm    Post subject:

Nice find Co

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:53 pm    Post subject:

Thats no flipping good, it has funny letters on it……

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:06 pm    Post subject:

The right of the pic, is that what a chopped piece looks like?

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:16 pm    Post subject:

They may have turned it upside down to chop the left then.

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:24 pm    Post subject:

Classic, I wonder if there is plough damage on it…..

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:46 pm    Post subject:

so it’ll be a middle surviving bit of inscription with letters chopped off at both ends.

epigraphers can now have decades of fun arguing about how to reconstruct the text!

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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:30 pm    Post subject:

The text appears to be IN English runes (NOT Elder Fuþark) and to read: …t æ a … …g d e …

No nearer to understanding what it says though :0(

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:55 pm    Post subject:

Oooh Superb

Interesting the way it appears to be cut up. Ritually killed I wonder?

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:27 pm    Post subject:

Cut up to be used as currency?_________________

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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:31 pm    Post subject:

Could be. Or possibly it might have been part of a hoard of scrap cut up and buried for later recovery by a metalworker. Similar to the “founders hoards” that occur in the Bronze Age.

I’ve never heard if this occuring in the post- Roman period ,although that might just be me being unfamiliar with the subject.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:42 am    Post subject:

havent been about much as ive been in Scotland since a week ago yesterday and my Dad passed away on Tuesday night – will be home after the funeral early next week I had an email from the Museum yesterday Jean – it says:

Caroline my FLO will be taking the find to the BM in early September (I hope to go with her is I can get the time off work) You can read about the progress of the treasure find on the PAS blog site (not yet announced) here

http://www.finds.org.uk/wordpress/category/treasure-process/

_________________Corinne Mills

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:27 pm    Post subject:

Sorry to hear that Co, but I am aware that has been unwell for some time.
Please pass on my sympathy and best wishes to your Mum and sister and the rest of the family.