Magazine and Reach PLC magazines. A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking coins. The rare discovery was made near a Viking castle in ...

The Cuerdale Hoard is the largest and most important Viking coin hoard found in Britain. It was discovered on15th May 1840 by workmen repairing the banks of the Ribble at Cuerdale, near Preston.

Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic stone carved to look like female genitalia. The graves, all of which seemed to belong to women ...