July 19, 2007



Spectacular Viking treasure discovered

Daniel Whelan and his son Andrew were spending their Saturday as usual, walking around Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, with their metal detector, when the device's beep led to an incredible discovery...

Experts say the artefacts, including hundreds of silver coins, ornaments and a spectacular gilt silver vessel, are the most important Viking hoard discovered in Britain in the last 150 years.

The treasure was probably buried for safekeeping by a wealthy Viking leader during the unrest that followed the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in AD 927 by the Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan.

I found an arrowhead once...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool!

I found an arrowhead recently too. :) If it weren't so humiliating, I'd get a metal detector

peace

Anonymous said...

Boy, is Kirk Douglas going to be PISSED!