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The Galloway Hoard

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

The richest Viking-age hoard ever found in Britain or Ireland. In 2014 a metal detectorist working a field near Balmaghie in Galloway, with permission, got a signal, and out of the ground came a buried world: silver arm-rings, a gold bird-shaped pin, a rock-crystal jar, silk from thousands of miles away, all packed into a vessel and hidden around AD 900. It took years of conservation to unwrap. It is now in National Museums Scotland. A real reminder of what this ground holds, found the legal way, with permission and reported to the Crown.

The ground it haunts

Near Balmaghie, Galloway (Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland). Source: The richest Viking-age hoard from Britain or Ireland, found 2014. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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