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The Skaill Hoard

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

The story

The largest Viking silver hoard ever found in Scotland turned up in 1858 when a boy chasing a rabbit into its burrow on the Bay of Skaill in Orkney pulled out silver instead, more than eight kilos of arm-rings, brooches and coins, buried around AD 950. The same bay holds Skara Brae, the astonishing 5,000-year-old stone village older than the pyramids. Orkney is layered with Norse and Neolithic treasure like nowhere else in Britain.

The ground it haunts

Bay of Skaill (Orkney, Scotland). Source: Scotland’s largest Viking silver hoard, found 1858. 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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