Amazing Discovery: A 1,000-Year-Old Treasure Unearthed by a Lucky Family in Their Backyard + Photos

According to the Society Service of Saed News, quoting Young Journalists Club, Norway’s Vestfold and Telemark Cultural Heritage Organization reported that the “Asvik” family was searching for their lost jewelry when, upon switching on a metal detector, they came across an engraved, bowl-shaped buckle and another buried object, which appear to date back to the Viking era. These items were found in the middle of a garden, beneath a large tree.

Archaeologists had previously known that Jomfruland, in the Vestfold and Telemark region, contained settlements hundreds of years old, but prior evidence only traced back to the early Middle Ages.

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The Vikings were seafarers from southern Scandinavia who lived between the late 8th and 11th centuries and were famous for their explorations and martial prowess.

One expert estimated the buckle’s age to be between 780 and 850 years.

Norwegian Cultural Heritage officials praised the family for this unprecedented discovery and for immediately contacting authorities about this rare find.

Earlier this month, a 51-year-old man who had recently purchased a metal detector discovered nine pendants, three gold rings, and ten pearls on Rønne Island in southern Norway.

Ole Madsen, director of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, described the find as “the golden discovery of the century.”