"By combining our areas of expertise, we can study this find from various angles, namely from the Frisian context, the Viking world, and from sword traditions ... 680 ancient gold and silver ...
The first was a collection of jewellery, which included a rare gold arm ... alike and Viking items in the national collections range from fishing hooks and needles to swords and hoards of silver.
Credit: Artur Reszko / PAP In November 2024, the Army Museum in Białystok unveiled an impressive historical treasure: a Viking-era sword, dated between the 9th and 10th centuries. This exceptional ...
The finding turned out to be a 10th-century Viking sword fragment ... named George Ridgway collected over 680 ancient gold and silver coins with his metal detector in Suffolk.