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The Silverdale Hoard

Silverdale, Lancashire

A Viking silver hoard with a coin of a king nobody had heard of.

In 2011 a metal detectorist found over 200 pieces of Viking silver buried in a lead pot near Silverdale, including arm rings, ingots and coins. One coin carried the name of a king, 'Airdeconut', who had never been recorded before.

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When
Found 2011
Where
54.1600, -2.8200
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

Displayed at Lancashire Museums. Silverdale is a lovely area for coastal walks.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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