Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
In 1958 a schoolboy helping on an archaeological dig on a tiny tidal island in Shetland lifted a stone slab in the floor of an old chapel and found a larch box holding 28 pieces of Pictish silver, brooches, bowls and a sword-chape, buried around AD 800, perhaps hidden from Viking raiders who were then falling on these coasts. It is the finest hoard of Pictish metalwork ever found. The originals are in Edinburgh; the island, reached by a stunning sand tombolo, is worth the walk for itself.
St Ninian’s Isle (Shetland, Scotland). Source: The finest hoard of Pictish silver ever found, 1958. 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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