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In total, the hoard contained eight silver necklaces, two bracelets, a ring, two pearls, and twelve coin pendants, that is, coins used as pendants.
Archaeologists have found a thousand-year-old silver treasure in Täby. The find, which contains coins and jewelry from the Viking age, is described as very well preserved.
– You will probably never see this again for the rest of your life, says archaeologist Maria Lingström.
It was in August that archaeologists made the find on a farm that is more than 1,000 years old in Viggbyholm, north of Stockholm. The archaeologists examined the site with a metal detector that suddenly gave a strong result.
– When we excavated, we found a ceramic basket and we saw that there was a necklace on it. When I began to carefully lift the neck ring, I saw that there was one more underneath and then another and another. It seemed they would never end, says Maria Lingström.
In total, the hoard contained eight silver necklaces, two bracelets, a ring, two pearls, and twelve coin pendants, coins used as pendants.
– Everything was in such an incredible state that it was as if it were closed yesterday, he says.
But in fact, the tax was hidden just over 1,000 years ago. Investigators believe that it has been hidden under the floorboards in one of more than 20 houses found on the estate, but it is not known why anyone has buried it.
– The classical interpretation is that it closes in connection with wars and conflicts, says Lingström.
Several of the coins come from different places in Europe. One of the European silver coins comes from Normandy in France and is very rare. This type of coin dates back to 900 AD and is only known from two older drawings so far.
Among the coins there are also five Arab silver coins, which probably reached Scandinavia through intermediaries.
– Shows the fantastic network of contacts they had during the Viking Age. On a small promontory here in the Baltic Sea, they had contacts with both the British Isles and Germany and then indirectly with the Middle East.
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