A college student in Denmark has unearthed a "spectacular silver treasure" of Viking Age jewelry that doubled as money.
Gustav Bruunsgaard, a metal detectorist and archaeology student at Aarhus University, was exploring farmland near Elsted, a town north of Aarhus, when his metal detector began beeping. Upon digging into the soil, he discovered a single silver bangle. A few days later, he returned to the field, which was the site of a Viking Age settlement, and dug up six more bracelets, according to a translated statement from Moesgaard Museum in Højbjerg.
