The doctor advised him to walk, he found a treasure.
In Norway, a 51-year-old man named Erlend Bore found 1,500-year-old gold necklaces and jewelry during his wanderings with a metal detector, which he started on his doctor’s advice to go for a walk.
The lucky “treasure hunter”, who at first thought he had come across a worthless metal, discovered through his detector nine gold pendants, three rings and ten pearls, in addition to the necklace.
As reported by Euronews, Bore, who spoke about the treasure found on the island of Rennesoey, south of the city of Stavanger, said that after his doctor recommended that he take a walk instead of sitting on the sofa, he bought two detectors. of metals and began to carry out “hobby walks”.
Photo: Anniken Celine Berger/NTB/Arkeologisk Museum
Ole Madsen, director of the Stavanger University Archaeological Museum, said it was “extremely unusual” to find so much gold at the same time, noting that the total weight of the treasure found by Bore was just over 100 grams.
The treasure hunter has to deliver all the jewels he finds to the authorities.
Under Norwegian law, objects from before 1537 and coins from before 1650 are considered state property and must be returned.
Experts claim that the gold necklaces are flat, thin, one-sided gold medals called ‘Brakteat’, which belong to the year 500 AD, which in Norway is called the migration period and spans the years 400 to about 550, when there were a great expansion. migration in Europe.
Considering that no similar discovery has been made in Norway since the 19th century, experts also believe that the gold necklaces and pearls are part of a “very ostentatious necklace” made by talented jewelers and worn by the wealthiest of the society.