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While developing a balcony in their yard, a house owner in Denmark found the treasure of a life time: more than 40 pounds (18.5 kgs) of thousand-year-old silver buried in the ground. An analysis exposed that the finding is the nation’s biggest Viking Age (793 to 1066) silver stockpile understood to scientists.

The stockpile has roughly 700 silver things, consisting of silver bars, fashion jewelry, 47 entire coins and coin pieces, and a little Thor’s hammera things that was frequently translated as an indication of defense and a hint that its owner thought in the Norse pantheon of gods. About 320 of those things were included in a clay vessel, while the rest lay in the soil close by. The treasure is almost 3 times bigger than the previous biggest silver stockpile from Denmark’s Viking Age, according to an equated declaration

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