The 1,100-year-old cache includes about 700 objects, among them jewelry, silver ingots, Anglo-Saxon and Islamic coins, and a tiny item resembling Thor’s hammer, offering rare insight into Viking trade and wealth

A homeowner digging up his garden to lay a new patio stumbled across Denmark's biggest ever haul of Viking silver.

The mundane work of clearing grass and stones in a backyard has led to the discovery of Denmark’s largest known hoard of Viking Age silver.