Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An amateur metal detectorist has discovered a 1,000-year-old gold Viking arm-ring — a piece of craftsmanship created by braiding ...

In his 50 years of scouring the Isle of Man with a metal detector in hand, Ronald Clucas had never found anything like it: eight strands of gold looped neatly together. Months on from its discovery in ...

Somewhere in the forests outside Rold, a small town in northern Denmark, a man out for a walk noticed something glinting in the earth. What he pulled from the ground turned out to be six solid gold ...

A Danish man turned in two gold rings he had found in a field, and that single act of civic reporting set off a chain of discoveries that would grow into a major Viking-age hoard. Museum teams ...

An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first ...

A local man was taking a walk along a road through the woods near Rold (on Denmark's Himmerland peninsula) when he spotted something unusual: two metallic objects glinting in the topsoil. He crouched ...

On the Isle of Man, a metal detectorist has discovered a squished fragment of a 11th-century Viking treasure: a piece of an intricately woven gold bracelet.. “I couldn’t really believe it at first,” ...

We’ve all been there—scrolling through eBay or stopping at a roadside antique store, sorting through jewelry and thinking: “What if I find a really valuable antique in here?” Most of the time, that ...