A Lost hoard of Viking Age Silver 1976.pdf
C Stephen Briggs
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. This content downloaded from 193.61.220.156 on Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:41:42 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions SUMMARY References to an 1835 find of silver artifacts and coins from near Downpatrick are noted from antiquarian papers of the mid-nineteenth century. The present whereabouts of the discovery are not known, but the precise ascription of a coin to a Baghdad mint, and an illustration of an arm-ring, demonstrate that this was a mixed Viking-Age silver hoard -the first on recordfrom Co. Down. Nineteenth-century sources The following is a transcript of one of several letters from Thomas Benn of Belfast to John Lindsay, the Cork antiquary and numismatist, which have been brought to our notice by Pro fessor Michael Dolley.1 It is dated 'Belfast, 18 June 1845'. 'My dear Sir, I received your much esteemed letter of 14th enclosing the 16th plate of the Scotch Work,
