Every year the National Museum of Denmark receives well over 20,000 metal detector finds for Danefæ assessment. Museum inspector Gitte T. Ingvardson, a Danefæ inspector at the museum, draws on her own research to offer a taste of how different kinds of detector finds can reveal life, people and events from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages.
The talk challenges the idea that these objects simply end up locked away in storerooms, showing instead how much research is being carried out on the finds. Expect stories of the last Viking, a horse trader from Bornholm, a Southern Jutlander with useful connections and a desperate English king, among much else.
