3 published discoveries from Scotland — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
In 1919 archaeologists digging a hillfort in East Lothian found more than 20 kilograms of late Roman silver, deliberately cut and crushed into pieces. It is the largest hoard of Roman hacksilver ever found.
In 2014 a metal detectorist in Dumfries and Galloway found more than 100 objects of silver, gold and rare materials, buried in carefully wrapped parcels around AD 900. It was valued at £1.98 million.
Found on the Isle of Lewis by 1831, the Lewis Chessmen are 93 pieces carved from walrus ivory and whale tooth in the late 1100s, among them the famous shield-biting warriors. They are now split between London and Edinburgh.
