By ECONEWS
Most of us head out for a walk to clear our heads or close the exercise ring on a smartwatch. In late summer on the Norwegian island of Rennesøy, that simple habit handed 51-year-old Erlend Bore something very different. His new metal detector buzzed over a clump of soil that held nine gold pendants, ten beads and three rings from around the year 500.
Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger quickly labeled it “the find of the century in Norway” and noted that uncovering so much gold at once is extremely rare. The hoard weighs just over 100 grams, yet its real weight is historical rather than financial.
A walk that opened a window on the Migration Period
Bore had bought the detector after his doctor told him to get out more instead of sitting on the couch. At first the device found only scrap. Then it started beeping on higher ground. In the dirt he saw what looked like bright coins.
“At first I thought I had found chocolate coins or plastic pirate treasure. It was surreal,” he later recalled.
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