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Interesting news · 11 November 2025
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time
Dumfries and Galloway · from bbc.co.uk
Photograph · bbc.co.uk
A gold and crystal jar from the 9th-century Galloway Hoard has gone on public display for the first time at Kirkcudbright Galleries.
The 5 cm-high vessel, wrapped in linen and silk when discovered by a metal detectorist in 2014, was revealed through 3D X-ray imaging before being carefully unwrapped.
Decorated with gold filigree and inscribed in Latin with “Bishop Hyguald had me made,” it is thought to have had a religious function in early medieval Northumbria. The hoard, described as one of Scotland’s most important Viking-era finds, was acquired by National Museums Scotland in 2017 and remains under ongoing study.
Robert Burns's favourite inn, founded in 1610 on a close off Dumfries High Street, with his chair, his bedroom window verse, a whisky bar and a fine restaurant.
A four‑year habitat restoration project at NatureScot’s Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve has successfully encouraged the return of marsh harriers, a rare raptor in Scotland, to the site.
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