The metal detectors would not stop beeping. That was the first sign something extraordinary lay beneath a farmer’s field near ...
Somewhere beneath a farmer’s field near the small town of Rena in eastern Norway, a fortune in silver had been waiting for ...
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Read on to see some of the priceless treasures that finders were forced to hand back. The Cuerdale Hoard was found in 1840 by two workmen by the River Ribble at Cuerdale near Preston in Lancashire, ...
The collection of Viking-age gold and silver from Britain and Ireland in the British Museum -- The discovery and dispersal of the Cuerdale Hoard -- The Cuerdale coins / Gareth Williams ; with a ...