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The Spillings Hoard

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

The largest Viking silver treasure ever found in the world came out of the ground under a farm on the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden, in 1999, when an aerial survey and then a detector turned up more than 67 kilograms of silver, most of it Islamic dirhams carried up the great river-roads from Baghdad and beyond, buried around AD 870. Gotland is riddled with such hoards, the savings of a trading people who buried their silver and did not always come back for it. The originals are in Visby.

The ground it haunts

Spillings, Gotland (Sweden). Source: The largest Viking silver hoard in the world, found 1999. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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