Viking Hoard

The Vale of York Viking Hoard includes 600 coins, complete ornaments, ingots (bars), and chopped-up fragments known as hack silver, and was discovered in North Yorkshire in January 2007.
When it was found, all the objects were packed into a dirty silver cup with soil on top. The coins came from as far afield as Russia and Central Asia and many were in an incredibly good, polished condition due to being stored inside the cup.
The Hoard was chosen by British Museum director Neal MacGregor as one of 100 Objects he would use to tell the History of the World.

Yorkshire Museum.
October 2010.