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Pectoral cross from the Galloway Hoard (Credit: National Museums Scotland, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Pectoral cross from the Galloway Hoard (Credit: National Museums Scotland, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pre-conservation image taken June 2018 of an ornamented silver pectoral cross with wire chain. The cross is decorated with what appears to be gilding and niello, each arm ornamented with a motif and there appears to be an ornamentation missing from the centre. A chain of coiled silver wire is wrapped around the arms. The cross is from the Viking age Galloway Hoard.

Pectoral cross from the Galloway Hoard (Credit: National Museums Scotland, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)


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