This thesis uses material efficacy as an analytical position to consider how silver—in addition to humans and institutions—helped to shape large-scale historical trajectories in Iron Age Scotland. Roman silver entered Scotland as imperial matter beginning in the 1st century AD and later inspired an assemblage of indigenous wearable silver in the 4th-5th century. I seek to investigate the human-silver collaborations involved in the transition from hoarding Roman silver coins to recycling Roman Hacksilber. By tracing the object trajectory of spiral rings, I show how silver’s material properties and entanglements played a role in developing Scotland’s earliest silver products. Around the 4th century, a diversity of spiral rings was replaced by a specific style of silver spiral (likely, male) finger ring. This thesis finds that silver brought to Iron Age Scotland by the Romans inspired and allowed individuals in northern Britain to develop empowering “post-Roman” identities that reshaped socio-political trajectories.