Nagelfar
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The Viking age of the Nordic countries starts at about 800 a.d. so direct contact with the Western Roman empire is not really an issue. It is likely that the Romans had contact, at least indirectly through trading, with the ancestors of the Vikings. There is evidence that amber was traded from the Baltic to the Mediterranean long before Rome appeared. The Varangian guard started out with Nordic warriors (V
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Ireland Worker Finds Ancient Psalms In Bog
Nagelfar replied to Favonius Cornelius's topic in Archaeological News: The World
"it may have been lost in transit or dumped after a raid" Being a novice, I cant help wondering if this is likely. It seems more probable that it was planted? How does the regulation on such finds work in Ireland?