AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Danish homeowner digging a patio unearths the country's largest Viking silver hoard
A man in northern Denmark struck something strange with his garden fork while preparing ground for a new patio, and pulled up 41 pounds of Viking-age silver, the biggest such haul ever found in the country. The unnamed homeowner in Rebild, a small town in northern Jutland, had planned a routine afternoon of yard work. […] The post Danish homeowner digging a patio unearths the country's largest Viking silver hoard appeared first on American Almanac .
A man in northern Denmark struck something strange with his garden fork while preparing ground for a new patio, and pulled up 41 pounds of Viking-age silver, the biggest such haul ever found in the country. The unnamed homeowner in Rebild, a small town in northern Jutland, had planned a routine afternoon of yard work. He was clearing grass, stones, and gravel to lay a tiled terrace. Half an hour in, his fork hit something that made an unusual sound. He assumed it was old iron or fencing wire. It was not. When he dropped to his knees and started digging with his hands, he began pulling metal objects from the soil one after another. Within minutes he realized he was holding jewelry, coins, and silver bars, roughly 700 objects and fragments…Open