Aethelred the Unready viewed the attacks on his kingdom as divine retribution. He hoped that a show of public penance, ...

A pair of rare silver coins discovered by metal detectorists in Denmark were meant to offer 11th century Christians a bit of ...

On the morning of April 10, two hobbyist metal detectorists walked into a freshly plowed field near the town of Rena in ...

A hoard of Viking Age silver coins unearthed from a field in Norway is largest discovery of its kind in the country's history.

A trove of 1,000-year-old Viking coins, unearthed on the Isle of Man, a British island territory located in the Irish sea, is officially treasure. Variously intact and fragmented, the coins had been ...

The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking ...

Two rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into ...

The imitation coin is about 20mm (0.8in) in diametre and has been pierced to be worn as a pendant A gold coin pendant lost by a soldier in the Viking Great Army has been discovered in a field in ...

Archaeologists in Norway have made a remarkable discovery that is now being described as one of the most significant Viking Age finds ever recorded. A large silver coin hoard, believed to contain ...

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 ...