A hoard of approximately 1,000 silver and copper coins from the Middle Ages has
been found in the woods near Vejle, southeastern Denmark. It is the first
medieval coin hoard and the greatest treasure from the Middle Ages ever found
in this part of the country and will shed new light on the history of trade in
the area.
The
hoard was found by VejleMuseerne archaeologist Kasper Terp Høgsberg who was
searching the area where individual coins had been found earlier: four of them
in March 2017, another in August 2018 and another in September of this year.
The finders had turned them into the museum, and after the most recent
discovery, Høgsberg decided to investigate the site with a metal detector. He
was astonished when his detector started signalling over and over and he
quickly found coin after coin just under the surface.
“It felt completely unreal. It is
a once-in-a-lifetime thing to find such a treasure. It will never happen again
in my career as an archaeologist!” said Høgsberg.
“I thought I was going to find a
lost purse with 20 coins along a road, but it just kept going until I eventually
had hundreds of coins.”
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