This Viking hoard was discovered in 2007 in North Yorkshire ... When we first saw the Vale of York cup it just looked grey and featureless on the outside and was filled to the brim with soil.

Astonishingly, it contained over 600 coins, all silver, and roughly the ... survivals that still speak of the long Viking presence. And the Vale of York Hoard reminds us that these places were ...

The Isle of Man has a larger concentration of Viking silver for ... Their currency was coinage, silver and gold and jewellery - they often wore their wealth. This hoard was buried in the Isle ...

Archaeologists are constantly unearthing lost treasures but a new book shines a light on those amateur detectorists who have ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...

A rare 9th Century silver brooch has been linked to the greatest Viking silver treasure trove found outside Russia. The piece of jewellery was discovered by a metal detectorist near Kelvedon ...

The decorative 25mm by 20mm (0.9 by 0.7in) brooch has been bent in half at some point in the past 1,000 years A rare 9th Century silver brooch has been linked to the greatest Viking silver ...

"Then I was looking at the Cuerdale Hoard and ... two other complete silver examples of the brooch, one found in Denmark and the other in The Netherlands. A lead version has been found at the famous ...