Two hoards containing nearly 300 silver coins, including Arabic and German, have been discovered near the remains of a Viking fortress in northwest Denmark, the museum that houses them announced Thursday, AFP quoted.

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“Such a treasure is very rare,” Lars Christian Nerbach, director of the North Jutland Museum, told AFP.

The silver coins were found about eight kilometers from the round fort of Firkat, near the town of Khobro. According to the inscriptions, they date back to the 980s.

In addition to Danish coins, some of the loot includes Arabic and German coins, as well as pieces of 500-gram precious stones from Scotland or Ireland.

“The surprise is that the treasure dates from the same period as this Viking fortress built by King Harald ‘Blue Tooth’, who is, so to speak, the founder of Denmark,” enthuses Lars Christian Nerbach, for whom the discovery will allow us to learn more about Viking history.

He believes that there may be a connection between the treasures that the Vikings buried during the wars and the fortress that burned down around the same time.

Danish coins were minted in very limited quantities by King Harald, he explained.

Private archaeological initiatives are legal in Denmark, provided the landowner agrees and the finds are returned to the museums.

Archaeologists have announced that they will continue excavations next fall, after the harvest season is over.

Their hope is to find the graves and, most likely, the homes of the former owners of this loot.

The public will be able to see the finds this summer at the Aalborg History Museum, where they will be on display from July 1.

The woman who made the find will receive financial compensation, the amount of which is still unknown.