[BANNER] VIKING AGE SILVER TREASURE !!!

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Hi TNetters. :angel3:

After a snowy morning I went to the Viking Age trading place in the afternoon.
A quite cold but very sunny pleasure, and I found some of the usual viking things in the area.
Going back to the car I had a very clear signal that I thought to be a aluminum beer can,
on a spot that my searcher collegue and I have passed at least a 100 times before.
For some reason I started digging the signal anyway.
In a depth of about 15 cm the signal got even clearer and I was about to cover the hole again,
but something in the signal said, not aluminum, but something else, and maybe better?
I got the object cirkulated with my pinpointer and I dug down a good bit of space away form the signal.
As I carefully took op the earth i saw the top edge of the large bracelett.
I almost lost my breath !!!
Shortly after I actually lost it, as I checked the hole with my pinpointer.
There were MORE signals !!!
Right under the large bracelett came an other but smaller and of an other type.
Then I called my searcher collegue. He had to witness this.
Right under it lay another bracelet of the same type and the pendant.
In the earth that was dug up I later found the 5 smal fragments of silver.
I only dug down in a depth of about 30 cm.
There were no more clear signals, and we are not allowed to dig under the ploughing soil.
Deep down in the buttom of the hole I can hear a signal that sounds like "iron", but you never know if it is very deap.
We put a plastic shopping bag in the whole to mark how deep we hat dug, and put the soil back in the hole.
I tried to reach the archaeologist on the phone, but i think he was on holiday.
The next day I spoke to an other archeologist at the museum who said that we had done just the right thing.
They will speak about the next step tomorrow at the office and I am sure they will come and make a small excavation on the spot, to see if there is more deaper down. :icon_thumleft:

The treasure contains of:

- One very heavy silver bracelett with a diameter 8 cm and a weight of 97,1 grams.
- Two smaler winded, silver braceletts of 7 and 8 cm, weighing 17,3 and 11,0 grams.
- One silver pendant of 2,7 cm in diameter, weighing 7,5 gram.
- The 10 small fragments are weighing 2,3 grams. (only 5 of them shown in picture)

This is without any doubt my best single find ever.

All in all a treasure of:
135,2 grams of wonderfull Viking Silver !!! :hello2:
 

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Stunning BANNER find, almost certainly Viking plunder.:notworthy: A find of a life time for sure.

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I have made this model of how the items were situated in the soil.
I guess it won´t be necessary to translate, you´ll understand. :hello:

The items have roughly been dated to the years around 900 AD
 

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Stunning recovery! Congrats from your Viking brethren in the US!
 

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I have made this model of how the items were situated in the soil.
I guess it won´t be necessary to translate, you´ll understand. :hello:

The items have roughly been dated to the years around 900 AD
Supprised there were no coins among the hoard.:dontknow:


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Its the treasure, congratulation!
 

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No brainer vote from me. I would have been over the moon with the pendant, which I love. The rest is just unbelievable..... can I come & stay with you. I will clean & cook.
 

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No brainer vote from me. I would have been over the moon with the pendant, which I love. The rest is just unbelievable..... can I come & stay with you. I will clean & cook.
And I will do the dishes and make the beds. :laughing7:
 

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Supprised there were no coins among the hoard.:dontknow:


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Me too, SS !!
There are found lots of hacked arab coins in the area, but not in this hole. They just might stay in a pot further down in the soil ??
I don´t know (yet) ! :dontknow:
 

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Me too, SS !!
There are found lots of hacked arab coins in the area, but not in this hole. They just might stay in a pot further down in the soil ??
I don´t know (yet) ! :dontknow:

I think you would have heard them. But just incase, the Archies may dig it out.
 

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Me too, SS !!
There are found lots of hacked arab coins in the area, but not in this hole. They just might stay in a pot further down in the soil ??
I don´t know (yet) ! :dontknow:

One never knows. A huge viking silver treasure in Sweden (Gotland I think) was found laying on a large iron plate ! 8-)
 

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One never knows. A huge viking silver treasure in Sweden (Gotland I think) was found laying on a large iron plate ! 8-)
Were they any signs of a container.(pot). :icon_scratch:


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No, nothing at all.
I have the theory that it is either the entire treasure, or maybe the top items of the treasure that have been like "liftet up" maybe 30-40 cm into the soil by the plogh, maybe this year going just 10 cm´s deeper with the plough. This would also explain why we have not found it before now.
Don´t know just a theory?
 

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Oh, forgot to tell: The exellent photo is made by my searcher collegue, Poul !! :icon_thumright:
 

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No, nothing at all.
I have the theory that it is either the entire treasure, or maybe the top items of the treasure that have been like "liftet up" maybe 30-40 cm into the soil by the plogh, maybe this year going just 10 cm´s deeper with the plough. This would also explain why we have not found it before now.
Don´t know just a theory?
Perhaps it was wraped in a cloth or leather bag, which has since rotted away.

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