Viking Silver Bracelet Hoard Found in Norway
Archaeologists have unearthed a set of uniquely decorated bracelets on the site of a "large and powerful" Viking Age farm.
Archaeologists in Norway have discovered a Viking Age treasure that had remained "untouched" for more than 1,000 years.
The four silver bracelets had been buried nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the ground on a mountainside in Årdal, a village in southwestern Norway, according to a translated statement from the University of Stavanger.
"This is definitely the biggest thing I have experienced in my career," Volker Demuth, an archaeologist and project manager at the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, said in the statement.
Archaeologists found the bracelets ahead of construction of a new tractor road.
Further exploration revealed that the location once housed a "large and powerful" Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) farm comprising multiple houses for people and animals, according to the statement. The researchers found the buried bracelets within one of the smaller structures, which likely housed enslaved individuals.
In addition to the jewelry, researchers discovered an array of artifacts, including soapstone pots, rivets, knife blades and whetstones for sharpening tools. There's also evidence that the farm had been burned down, which "coincides with a period of great unrest in the Viking Age," according to the statement.
"If people who lived on this farm had to flee from an attack, it would be natural to hide away the valuables you had before escaping to the mountains," Demuth said. "And perhaps in a place where you would not have thought that a treasure was hidden."
By Jennifer Nalewicki.
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Mother nature 😍
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Scoperto in Norvegia un piccolo "tesoro" vichingo: quattro bracciali d'argento. Furono sepolti durante un attacco?
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Elena Percivaldi
Erano sepolti sotto terra a una profondità di circa 20 centimetri, lungo il pendio di una montagna nei pressi di Årdal, un villaggio nella Norvegia sudoccidentale. I quattro bracciali d’argento, finemente decorati e databili al IX secolo, secondo gli archeologi dell’Università di Stavanger che li hanno riportati alla luce, sono di grande interesse perché potrebbero fornire nuove…
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Mountain... by bent inge https://flic.kr/p/2oCQy55
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farnes church, sometime between 1970 and 1980
photograph by årdal photo
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Trolljegeren / Troll Hunter
André Øvredal. 2010
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Utladalen Camping, Utladalsvegen 28, 6884 Øvre Årdal, Norway
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Last year's roadtrip with B and this year's planned roadtrip with B and V. It's about 400km longer in the same time frame of 4 days and 3 nights but knowing that last year we started the first day in the afternoon, we can definitely take a headstart on the first day by leaving in the morning and rushing directly to Øvre Årdal and possibly further (we could sleep at the Sognefjell viewpoint on the first night!). Night two near Røros, night three somewhere on the way down from Trondheim.
I think this is realistic. I wanted to go to Geiranger and Trollstigen but the road is closed for a year because they're securing it against rockfalls, that one will be for another time!
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Synnøve Årdal
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Happy Birthday Norway!
Årdalsvatnet, Øvre Årdal, Norway
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She is growing so fast 😭
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Vettisfossen, Utladalen, Årdal, Norway
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Julebukk, Årdal, 1950s
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Aspie Road Trip!
Je prépare un road trip avec mon gamin. Je suis entrain de lui vendre un tour des clochers de Norvège. (Les églises il adore, c'est parce qu'elles ont des cloches!). On ira voir toutes les églises qu'il voudra. Il y en a même qui m'intéressent (les stavkirker évidemment!).
Sur la carte c'est le tour si tout se passe bien. 5-6 jours max. On dormira dans le coffre mais j'embarquerai quand même la tente. On mangera des tartines tout le temps, on verra la montagne et la mer et la montagne à la mer. On aura même le soleil de minuit. J'aurai mes appareils mais je serai surtout occupé à documenter notre aventure.
Mais avec B, il faut que ce soit arrêtable à tout instant. Donc je suis mentalement prêt à ne faire que deux jours si c'est trop pour lui.
Mais à vue de nez :
Jour 1 : Larvik — Øvre Årdal
Jour 2 : Øvre Årdal — Kristiansund
Jour 3 : Kristiansund — qq part Entre Trondheim & Mo i Rana
Jour 4 : Cet endroit — Bodø
Jour 5 : Bodø — Mo i Rana (explorer et redescendre un peu)
Jour 6 : Retour Larvik d'une traite de l'endroit ou l'on se trouvera
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