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  • 1500-year-old gold treasure discovered by metal detectorist: “This is the gold find of the century in Norway”

    09/08/2023 3:41:43 PM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    Science norway ^ | 07. September 2023 | Lasse Biørnstad
    Nine gold pendants with rare horse symbols, ten gold beads, and three gold rings from the 6th century were recently discovered by a metal detectorist in Southwestern Norway. Erlend Bore just wanted a hobby. So just before this summer, he bought a metal detector. To get him off his couch and go treasure hunting. He was searching around the shore of the island Rennesøy in Stavanger, in Southwestern Norway, when the metal detector started to beep. In a lump of soil, he saw something that looked like gold coins. “At first I thought I’d found chocolate money with a gold...