Spillings Hoard
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title:
Spillings Hoard
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The Spillings Hoard is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on Friday 16 July 1999 in a field at the Spilling farm northwest of Slite, on northern Gotland, Sweden. The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of 67 kg (148 lb) before conservation and consisted of, among other things, 14,295 coins most of which were Islamic from other countries. A third deposition containing over 20 kg (44 lb) of bronze scrap-metal was also found. The three caches had been hidden under
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Largest known Viking silver hoard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillings_Hoard
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2023-09-15T21:59:20Z
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