Using a metal detector in a field, a Norwegian man stumbled upon a number of silver pieces dating back to the Viking Age.
Many people dream of finding buried treasure, but very few people actually do. For one man in central Norway that dream became a reality just before Christmas last year, when he took his metal detector for a stroll in a field near his home and unearthed a hoard of silver fragments from the Viking Age.
"It's been many years since such a large Viking treasure was found in Norway," Birgit Maixner , an archaeologist at Norway's University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, said in a statement .The silver fragments date back around 1,100 years to the eighth and ninth centuries — during the Viking Age, which lasted for about 200 years between the ninth and 11th centuries.
The 46 silver fragments weigh 1.5 ounces , or about the weight of a golf ball. Maixner said that based on what we now understand of the Vikings' value system, the silver was worth a little more than half a cow — quite valuable for a time when owning five cows was about average for a medium-size farm.—Viking 'piggy bank' hoard discovered on Isle of ManWhile the silver fragments may have once been used by Vikings, Maixner isn't sure how the treasures ended up in Norway.
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