Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly ... They date back to the early 800s A.D., during the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066), head archaeologist ...

"That coin is perhaps the finest find from here ... "Through textile work, women could accumulate wealth in the early Viking Age," said Unn Pedersen, an expert on the Viking Age who has researched ...

BBC Cymru Wales launches new eight-part podcast 10 years on from the Viking treasure hoard discovered in Herefordshire ...

Most researchers had long assumed that early Viking raiding parties consisted ... an inhabitant buried these beads and silver Islamic coins for safekeeping and failed to return for them.

Magazine and Reach PLC magazines. A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking coins. The rare discovery was made near a Viking castle in ...

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says Ystgaard. “It’s extremely rare to find coins in Viking burials, and so far as I know, none have ever been found in a shield boss.” Ystgaard ...

Restless in their exploration both westward and eastward from Scandinavia, the Vikings left artifacts, such as this 10th-century silver coin ... on the island from the early 1500s.

Some of our early discoveries related to manufacture ... we also found small ‘nicks’ on many of objects and coins where the Viking owners had tested the metal for silver quality.