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Traprain dish(large)
925 - Edinburgh Hallmarked
d.120mm, w. 215mm
d.120mm, w. 215mm
Price: £445.00 
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Traprain dish (small)
925 - Edinburgh Hallmarked
d.75mm, w. 70 mm
d.75mm, w. 70 mm
Price: £277.00
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"And soon a score of fires, I ween,
From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen;
Each with warlike tidings fraught;
Each from each the signal caught;
Each after each they glanced to sight,
As stars arise upon the night.
They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn,
Haunted by the lonely earn;
On many a cairn's grey pyramid,
Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid;
Till high Dunedin [Edinburgh] the blazes saw,
From Soltra [Soutra] and Dumpender Law [Traprain];
And Lothian heard the Regent's order,
That all should bowne them for the Border."
From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen;
Each with warlike tidings fraught;
Each from each the signal caught;
Each after each they glanced to sight,
As stars arise upon the night.
They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn,
Haunted by the lonely earn;
On many a cairn's grey pyramid,
Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid;
Till high Dunedin [Edinburgh] the blazes saw,
From Soltra [Soutra] and Dumpender Law [Traprain];
And Lothian heard the Regent's order,
That all should bowne them for the Border."
Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto 3, XXIX)
Sir Walter Scott
(using archaic forms of local place names)
Sir Walter Scott
(using archaic forms of local place names)
Purchase benefits the acquisition fund for the National Museum of Scotland.
