Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

Malcolm Weale, a detectorist who found the item displays an early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was ...

Special writing on an arm ring from the Galloway Hoard may shed some light on who might have owned the collection.

In other Anglo-Saxon writings from the period ... Around the time the Galloway Hoard was buried, the Vikings were raiding monasteries—so maybe this particular religious community hid its ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three ...

Archaeologists have found “compelling” new evidence as to who might have owned a Viking Age hoard of more than 5kg of ... by ...

A University of Winchester academic has become the consultant for a new French docudrama series on the Vikings and their 'Empire of the North Sea'. Professor of Early Medieval history, Ryan Lavelle, ...