3 published discoveries from Sweden — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
In 1999 archaeologists on a Gotland farm found 67 kilograms of Viking silver, more than 14,000 coins and nearly 500 arm-rings, hidden beneath the floor of a storehouse. It is the largest Viking silver hoard ever found.
A couple digging for fishing worms behind the outside toilet of their rented summer cottage near Stockholm found Sweden's largest coin hoard: more than 24,000 silver coins. The state has paid them 4 million kronor.
A detector survey ahead of a military expansion on Gotland has found 45 Roman silver coins and a gold ring, buried at an ancient farm around AD 450.
