{"id":665,"date":"2023-02-06T04:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-golden-treasure-rewriting-danish-history-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T04:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:36:49","slug":"the-ancient-golden-treasure-rewriting-danish-history-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-ancient-golden-treasure-rewriting-danish-history-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The ancient golden treasure rewriting Danish history \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bYX1KC7-3qI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A chance discovery is shedding new light on early Norse history, after two old school-friends, armed only with a metal detector stumbled across a gold treasure trove.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 gold artefacts, weighing almost a kilo, were found buried in a field in the Danish village of Vindelev. Hidden for almost 1,500 years, the treasure includes Roman medallions and ornate pendants called &#8216;bracteates&#8217; &#8211; some as large as a saucer.<\/p>\n<p>There are mysterious inscriptions and never-seen-before runes, which researchers think are some of the earliest references to Norse gods.<\/p>\n<p>So could Vindelev have been the seat of power for a previously unknown Iron Age king or chieftain?<\/p>\n<p>Video by Adrienne Murray &#038; James Brooks<br \/>\nCommissioned by Dan John<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bYX1KC7-3qI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance discovery is shedding new light on early Norse history, after two old school-friends, armed only with a metal detector stumbled across a gold treasure trove. More than 20 gold artefacts, weighing almost a kilo, were found buried in a field in the Danish village of Vindelev. Hidden for almost 1,500 years, the treasure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}