A Norwegian man, who picked up a metal detector for a hobby, has discovered a historic gold necklace that might have been worn as showy jewelry 1,500 years ago.
In August, Bore began walking around the mountainous island with his metal detector. A statement issued by the university said he first found some scrap, but later uncovered something that was"completely unreal" —Under Norwegian law, objects from before 1537, and coins older than 1650, are considered state property and must be handed in.
Associate professor Håkon Reiersen with the museum said the gold pendants — flat, thin, single-sided gold medals called bracteates — date from around A.D. 500, the so-called Migration Period in Norway, which runs between 400 and about 550, when there wereThe pendants and gold pearls were part of"a very showy necklace" that had been made by skilled jewelers and was worn by society’s most powerful, said Reiersen.
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