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Manx Viking treasures on show in Cornwall

 

Viking relics from the Isle of Man are to go in display at a Cornish museum, in a major new exhibition.

Items including bronze pins, iron nails from a Viking ship, glass beads and a Viking sword, have been requested on loan by the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth.

Its two year exhibition Viking Voyagers opens in March and will portray the Scandinavian marauders as a maritime culture, whose mastery of sea-faring technology was the secret of their success.

Alison Fox is Curator of Archaeology at the Manx Museum.

She says the loan will serve as a valuable shop window for the Island's rich Viking history: 

 

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