Explore one of northern Europe’s largest Viking settlements in Denmark through this digital reconstruction. The largest treasure ever found in Denmark, a 1.83 kilogram heavy neck ring of solid gold, was ploughed up on a field near the lake in 1977. After the discovery, the National Museum of Denmark began snooping around the area with metal detectors. But this was only the beginning. “In about 1990, amateur archaeologists started using metal detectors in the field further north along the banks of the lake. Here they began to find jewellery and…
