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  2. Vale of York Hoard - Wikipedia

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    Vale of York Hoard. The Vale of York Hoard, also known as the Harrogate Hoard and the Vale of York Viking Hoard, is a 10th-century Viking hoard of 617 silver coins and 65 other items. It was found undisturbed in 2007 near the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The hoard was the largest Viking one discovered in Britain since 1840 ...

  3. Norse colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland. This is known now as L'Anse aux Meadows where the remains of buildings were found in 1960 dating to approximately 1,000 years ...

  4. Mästermyr chest - Wikipedia

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    During the Viking Age, the area where Mästermyr mire is located used to be a lake. The mire was drained in 1902–10. [1] In October 1936, the chest was found by farmer Hugo Kraft in a field owned by Emil Norrby in Snoder, Sproge near Hemse. [2] It was found in an area that was plowed for the first time. [3]

  5. Spillings Hoard - Wikipedia

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    Spillings Hoard. The Spillings Hoard (Swedish: Spillingsskatten) is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on Friday 16 July 1999 in a field at the Spilling farm northwest of Slite, on northern Gotland, Sweden. The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of 67 kg (148 lb) before conservation and consisted of, among ...

  6. 1,000-year-old Viking treasure found hidden in dirt: 'Unique ...

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    The artifacts were found on a farm. Norwegian archaeologists announced last week that excavators found 1,000-year-old Viking arm bands buried in soil. The artifacts were found on a farm.

  7. ‘Exceedingly rare’ ancient tools found under melting ice in ...

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    Over 100 stacks of rocks, known as cairns, have been found demarcating the route. And about 800 other Viking artifacts, including a knife, a shoe and a mitten, have also been located there ...

  8. Viking coinage - Wikipedia

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    Viking coin hoard found between 1992 and 2000, likely minted between 923 and 925 within the Danelaw kingdoms. [1] Early medieval coin, East Anglian Viking penny. Viking coinage was used during the Viking Age of northern Europe. Prior to the usage and minting of coins, the Viking economy was predominantly a bullion economy, where the weight and ...

  9. Tromsø Burial - Wikipedia

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    Viking. Present location. British Museum. Identification. 1900,0518.1-13. The Tromsø Burial or Tromsø Grave Group is a significant hoard of Viking objects found near Tromsø, in the far north of Norway, in the late nineteenth century. Since 1900, the group has been part of the British Museum 's early medieval collection.