'Spectacular silver treasure' from Viking Age unearthed by college student on farm in Denmark

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.

Bruunsgaard alerted officials to the finding, and experts dated the items to the 800s, which would have been during the early Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) in Scandinavia.