A forest track near the small town of Rold in northern Denmark has yielded one of the most remarkable Viking Age discoveries in the country’s history: six solid gold arm rings, buried together more ...

A large, gold Viking ring crafted from twisted metal strands turned up in a very unexpected place: a heap of cheap jewelry a woman in Norway purchased at an online auction. Archaeologists think the ...

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Gold bracelets were just sticking out of the ground in Denmark.

In Denmark, archaeologists were truly amazed when they found an extraordinary hoard of Viking Age gold in a forest in Himmerland. This treasure includes six solid gold arm rings weighing 762.5 grams; ...

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We’ve all been there—scrolling through eBay or stopping at a roadside antique store, sorting through jewelry and thinking: “What if I find a really valuable antique in here?” Most of the time, that ...

This is an elaborate and rare form of 9th or 10th century Viking gold ring. It was found during the excavation of a drainage ditch in Sedbergh. It is a double-banded hoop made from a gold strip, the ...

An archaeological revolution has overturned decades of assumptions.

A local man was taking a walk along a road through the woods near Rold (on Denmark’s Himmerland peninsula) when he spotted something unusual: two metallic objects glinting in the topsoil. He crouched ...