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In southwestern Norway, four silver bracelets from the Viking Age were buried nearly eight inches in the ground. They were located on a mountainside in a village called Årdal.
Only three iron Viking bracelets are among over 1,000 preserved in the National Historical Museum, making this find ...
An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board. Last fall, a Swedish man ...
One year ago today, it was reported that a mixed hoard of early medieval silver artefacts discovered by a metal detectorist in Cumbria ...
Archeologists in Sweden have uncovered a stockpile of silver that they believe is approximately ... inside a ceramic pot in Viggbyholm, Täby, a "Viking Age settlement" located outside Stockholm ...
Photos show the highly decorated Viking jewelry. Google Street View April ... but these items are typically made of bronze or silver. Sweden’s National Historical Museum has over 1,000 armbands ...
The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping ... part of the Galloway Hoard — buried treasure including ornate jewelry, gold and ...
its prescence there may indicate a viking camp or perhaps a raid on the monastery there? This ingot might have been cast from melted down booty or lots of little pieces of 'hack silver'.
Swedish laws may also account for the lack of rediscovered iron Viking jewelry. Unlike with artifacts made of silver or gold, Swedes are under “no obligation to contact authorities when [they ...