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The breadth of National Museums Scotland's collections, together
with the support of The Glenmorangie Company, puts National Museums
in a unique position to reveal the role of silver in the
development of the first kingdoms of Scotland. It was silver, not
gold, which was the most important and powerful precious metal in
Scotland for over six hundred years and, as well as showcasing
beautiful objects, the book builds on the Glenmorangie Research
Project to gives fresh insights into this formative period of
Scottish history. Based on the exhibition Scotland's Early Silver
which was at the National Museum of Scotland and is now on tour.
Excavated from Traprain Law, East Lothian, Scotland, in May 1919,
was one of the most spectacular discoveries of Roman silver ever
made in Europe - and the biggest hoard of `hacksilver': 23kg,
battered, crushed and chopped up. Blame for the destruction has
hitherto been laid at the door of `barbarians' but this study
changes that view. An international team of scholars has reviewed
the hoard's origins and manufacture, its use as elite tableware,
its hacking and later reuse. A century of new discoveries and ideas
allow fresh conclusions, especially about the hacking. With
wide-ranging parallels from across Europe, the authors argue that
hacking was a deliberate Roman policy to create bullion at times of
economic crisis, turning valued vessels into weights of silver to
be used in frontier politics, to pay off groups from beyond the
empire, or hire them as mercenaries
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