In 2012, two detectorists on Jersey, an island in the English Channel, made a discovery 30 years in the making. In a tightly packed clump of earth spanning 11 square feet, Reg Mead and Richard ...
Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than 10 pounds of artifacts carefully buried in a hoard. The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age.