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The 1,000-year-old neck rings, finger rings, pearls and coins were in near-pristine condition

The discovery was made during excavations of a Viking settlement where the researchers found the remains of 20 houses and structures that date from AD 400, continuing into the Viking Age (AD 800-1050) and the early Middle Ages. While excavating a...

The hoard of Viking silver found outside Stockholm includes a Norman coin whose only previously documentation was in an 18th century book.

A 1000-year-old silver hoard found in Sweden is something “you probably only experience once in a lifetime” says local expert.

In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish National Historical Museums, who are also known as the Archaeologists. They were excavating at a Viking-age settlement at Viggbyholm just north of Stockholm. During routine metal detecting of the site, they had located a very exciting find: eight silver necklaces and other silver jewellery along with 12 coins, everything delicately wrapped up in a cloth and deposited in a pot. In other words, a genuine Viking silver hoard. As a professor in numismatics, the study of currency, I have spent my life becoming an e...