Someone dug a hole in the dark brown dirt of eastern Norway and placed a set of silver Viking treasures inside. They probably planned to come back. Instead, they vanished. Over 1,000 years later ...

its prescence there may indicate a viking camp or perhaps a raid on the monastery there? This ingot might have been cast from melted down booty or lots of little pieces of 'hack silver'.

The Isle of Man has a larger concentration of Viking silver for its area than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.The Vikings raided and traded all over the world. Their currency was coinage ...