A Norwegian man found rare gold jewelry dating back to the sixth century, after he complied with his doctors’ advice to increase his physical movement, using a metal detector he had recently purchased, in a discovery described as “the discovery of gold in the century” in Norway.
A statement from the University of Stavanger (Southwest) quoted Erlend Bohr as saying, “At first I thought they were pieces of chocolate or belonging to Captain Sabeltan,” a famous fictional character of a Norwegian pirate, reports Al-Rai daily.
The university announced that what was discovered consisted of nine pieces and a group of grains that previously formed a luxurious necklace of gold, in addition to three rings of the same metal. The artifacts were discovered by an amateur archaeologist at the end of August on a farmer’s land near Stavanger.
The fiftieth man, who wanted to become an archaeologist as a child, bought a metal detector to encourage himself to get out of the house and increase his physical movement, as recommended by his doctor and physical therapist. He was about to return home when he heard his phone ringing on the side of a hill.
He contacted the local antiquities authority, whose members came to take over the matter.
The authority indicated, according to the Sky News Arabia website, that the jewelry, whose total weight is slightly more than 100 grams, dates back to approximately the year 500 AD, at a time that witnessed a large migration of peoples into Europe.
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