A Dane Dug up a Huge Silver Treasure From the Viking Era in His Garden
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A Viking-era silver treasure was found in the garden of a homeowner in the Danish village of Rebild while he was clearing land for a new terrace. The items weighed a total of 18.5 kilograms, making it the largest discovery of its kind in Denmark.
A neighbor of Rebild, in the north of Denmark, took a huge surprise by finding 18.5 kg of silver buried in his garden while laying the ground to build a new terrace. The discovery, considered the greatest silver treasure of the Viking era so far located in the country, is made up of a few ... Continue reading "A man finds in his garden the greatest silver treasure of the Viking era, weighing more than 18 kg"
Detection enthusiasts usually only go back to nails and isolated pieces. However, it happens that a simple signal leads to a thousand-year-old hiding place. In Finland, a silver Viking treasure comes to emerge from a forest floor.
A treasure, in the archaeological sense, designates a set of precious objects deliberately hidden, often in the ground, and sometimes found several centuries later. It is precisely this kind of discovery that has just made the small world vibrate of the enthusiasts of Scandinavian history. At the beginning of September, a simple amateur detectorist put his hands on what constitutes [...]
Nearly 700 items were found, including 47 coins, jewellery, ingots and a small Thor hammer.
Around 150 kilometers north of Helsinki, a prober in the forest came across a 1,000-year-old silver treasure, the largest one ever discovered in Finland from that time.For Kalle Lappinen from Sysmä in the south of Finland, the dream of every treasure hunter came true. He was regularly dragged through the surrounding forests with his metal detector. At one point, his device had repeatedly beeped, but Lappinen had not been able to discover anythin…
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