The buried Viking relics were discovered by the Aasvik family.
After a man in Norway made a record-breaking gold discovery with a metal detector, a family in the country made another unprecedented discovery with the same device. The family was looking for a lost earring in their garden, but instead they found artifacts dating back more than a millennium.
According to the BBCthe Aasvik family unearthed a bowl-shaped buckle and another object that appears to be part of a Viking-era burial. Experts believe the artifacts were used in the burial of a woman in the ninth century on the small island of Jomfruland. The discovery was made under a large tree in the middle of the family garden on the island, off the southern coast of Norway.
“We congratulate the family who found the first safe Viking Age find in Jomfruland,” Vestfold Cultural Heritage and Telemark County Council wrote in a Facebook post.
Living Science reported that the new discovery of what appears to be the grave of an aristocratic Viking woman now indicates that the cairns were in fact made by Vikings.
The larger artefact found in the grave is an oval-shaped brooch that would have been worn by a woman in a halter dress to fasten the shoulder straps at the front, said Vibeke Lia, an archaeologist with the Vestfold and Telemark County Council. Living Science. Such brooches were often found in the graves of Viking women, and their style was characteristic of the ninth century, according to the news source.
“They come in pairs, one for each belt, so there should be one more,” she said.
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