TheDane
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Hi TNetters. 
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.
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 !!!
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.
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 !!!
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A find of a life time for sure.
