![]() ![]() Instead the coins were used to impress and were eventually buried in the ground, perhaps as offerings. They couldn’t spend them, and they didn’t melt them down either. ![]() Those coins became really important social status symbols to Iron Age communities. Scotland’s early silver arrived as coins, silver denarii that were used as bribes or “gifts” by the Roman Empire to divide and conquer the local Iron Age tribes beyond their frontier. ![]() It first arrived in the lands we now call Scotland with the Roman army in the first century AD as a new material that changed how people showed and measured power and prestige. Silver was powerful in Scotland from the start – more important than gold for a thousand years. © National Museums Scotland As National Museums Scotland prepares to unveil an exhibition showcasing Roman and Early Medieval silver, Alice Blackwell, Glenmorangie Research Fellow, talks about about power and prestige in the first millennium AD Half of a silver platter with the head of Hercules in medallion and hunting scenes outside, from Traprain Law.
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