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'.

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...