Daily Medieval

In yesterday's post about the Ardagh Hoard it was compared to the Book of Kells  as prime examples of early Irish art, but then mention...

In 1868, two boys were digging in a potato field west of Ardagh in County Limerick when they struck something solid that was definitely  not...

And now for the absolute largest Viking hoard of silver treasure ever found (I should add: "so far"). In 1999, a Swedish televisio...

The Vale of York Hoard was the largest hoard since  the Cuerdale Hoard. So what was special about Cuerdale? Well, the York Hoard had over 6...

With almost 4600 items, the Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver jewelry found in England. Another d...

Silver has always been valuable as a unit of exchange, but it would be wrong to assume silver was always in the form of coins or small (or l...

Besides an impressive array of carved stone slabs , the Picts also did some sophisticated metalwork. One important piece is the Whitecleuch...