Galloway Hoard - Museum of Melbourne

I partly went to Melbourne to see this show and it did not disappoint. I was not really prepared for the contents of the show however, much of which is pretty boring stuff like silver ingots. I mean if you've seen one ingot you've seem them all, they are sort of like steel fingers in shape and size.

Above photo shows some of the ingots, there is a ton of them. All nearly identical. But there are other items as well, including crafed containers. See photo below. This containers had in it a whole ot of other things, some glass some metal. 

Each item was wrapped in cloth. I mean each item in the above container. Although most of the cloth had disintegrated as the container was like 1000 years old or something. But traces of cloth remained.

Galloway is on the Ireland side of southwest Scotland, though the name actually sounds Irish. But it's not. The museum has a crafted sign showing silver trade routes, which was sort of cool. But not a whole ton of information. 

There were other special items including a sort of alligator or crocodile (see below) with blue eyes. Apologies for the quality of the photograph I did not intend when taking it to use it in a post. You can just see the sort of animal heads in the top of the photo. They are sort of cute sort of scary.

The museum is on a tram route, of course. The museum also sold a sort of catalogue or book, which I bought. I will have to read it one day, but I won't be reading it before posting this unfortunately.