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A beautiful fragment of a Roman silver plate from the Traprain Treasure: ca. AD 410-425. The niello decoration, set within a gilt double-ring, shows 'Venus Anadyomene' - Venus rising from the sea.

Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.GVA 44). Link - https://t.co/HdzWQEYuk1

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Early silver is spectacular! Highlighted in Scotland’s exhibition. Check out Stefka Bargazova’s blogs. https://t.co/BDROrvMXBo Roman from Law. (Lucky to work on pieces many years ago!)

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1919 George Pringle, excavation foreman on Traprain Law in was loosening soil when he hit something strange…
The Traprain Treasure had come back to the light!

Discover more about it in this blog post from Dr Fraser Hunter:
https://t.co/piGwYrWUho

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