Spillings Hoard

Spillings Hoard
A part of cache No 2 of the Spillings Hoard in the Gotland Museum
Material	Silver, Bronze
Size	40 kg (88 lb) plus 27 kg (60 lb) plus 20 kg (44 lb)
Created	9th century
Period/culture	Viking Age (late Iron Age)
Discovered	16 July 1999 Spillings, Othem, Gotland, Sweden 57°43′18″N 18°46′49″E / 57.721608°N 18.780352°E / 57.721608; 18.780352
Discovered by	Jonas Ström and Kenneth Jonsson
Present location	Gotland Museum
Identification	52803

The Spillings Hoard (Swedish: Spillingsskatten) is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on Friday 16 July 1999 in a field at the Spilling farm northwest of Slite, on northern Gotland, Sweden. The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of 67 kg (148 lb) before conservation and consisted of, among other things, 14,295 coins most of which were Islamic from other countries. A third deposition containing over 20 kg (44 lb) of bronze scrap-metal was also found. The three caches had been hidden under the floorboards of a Viking outhouse sometime during the 9th century.