Viking hoard find in Gotland
 

fantastic news, great luck

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Sounds like a dandy place to own a metal detector !

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Isn't that every boy's dream, to dig up some stinkin' buried treasure!? :bear_w00t:

Well, I guess it's men's dream, too. :bear_tongue:

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"The authorities thanked farmer Tage Pettersson after moving the coins to a museum and then gave him a free year pass to the museum so that he could view the coins anytime he wished to"

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And little girls' and women's dreams, too...although we think it would be nice to dig up some Viking jewelry with those coins, like maybe a nice pair of those huge gold tortoise-style brooches Viking women wore. :bear_tongue:

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Which is exactly why you'll never hear about the other 99% that are found.

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Well the Nordic peoples are very community oriented and I would think that there will be future finds that are given up willingly just like this.

I have had the great pleasure of viewing two fantastic collections of such archaeological finds, the longboat of longboats, the Oseberg ship which is kept in Oslo, and the glorious golden horde that is kept in Stockholm, at the National Museum of Antiquities, the gold room called guldrummet, btw, here is the Oseberg ship

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...g_longship.png

Here are some reproductions you can buy if you really like Viking style

http://www.northerner.com/html/beh-pendants_1.html

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anybody read Knut Hamsen? great novelist.

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Anty,
Appreciate your posts of interesting stuff.
A guy that used to hang around here often,
Midas / Panda lived in England,
He had a detector and
spent some time out and about looking I believe.
I have read more than a few stories similar to this one
about fellows plowing their field and coming across some interesting items.
A gentleman I worked with once
told me about how how he was out playing as a youngster in the early 60's and building a fort of some sort in the Central Florida area.
They dug up an old leather pouch and some Spanish coins he said.
The bad part about the story is that they let the local five and dime store guy talk them out of them in trade for some "free" sundries...
I can only imagine how these came to be lost years ago.
My father used to walk behind his fathers horse and plow in Mississippi in the early 30's...
He would pick up an occasional arrowhead...
I still have many of them.
Interesting that you have been to Oslo to view those pieces.
Great travelers they were.
Have you by chance studied any of the henge sites or
read much about the Grooved Ware people. ?
Straying on the subject though...sorry...
Just curious.
Haystackneedle

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You got that right. Guess he didn't have mineral rights.

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Don't get caught (illegal in Sweden and probably other Scandinavian lands as well). Such antiquities are automatically property of the Swedish gov't no matter where they're found.

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a lot of coin collectors have a few arrowheads laid back, dont we? I got a good friend who found one in my home state and put it in a nice box for me. I got it in my office next to this goofy little wooden viking doll with a rebel flag pin and an "inequality" pin too. if anybody eyeballs my stuff too closely they get the picture and need not ask


Nope, not in person that is. I read about all the menhirs though-- thats what they call them in France, they have em in Bretagne-- and did you know they have them in Malta too? Of course the Myceneans constucted with collosal stones too. I think these were all constructions of the pre-Aryan indigenous peoples of Europe, who along with the Minoans and Egyptians had some sort of "Atlantean" type influences, if you will

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Gotland Island is where the proto-vikings that sacked Rome, the Visgoths, were from.

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Hello AE,
I have only found one real arrowhead ( and I would swear my wife planted it as I was talking on the trail about NEVER finding one--) and it is now mixed up in the collection of my late dads items.
He had cigar boxes full of them, and I have kept maybe 50 or so.
He stated to me once that he had a much more extensive collection and when he took many of them to "show and tell" at the elementary school in the early 40's the teacher "liberated" many of them from him.
I used to go out to the river bank and look for pottery shards and such...
I have found much of these near the Pearl River in Miss. and I even found some in Az. while on a trip there a few years back.
In many places there ( Az ) it seems shards and items are prolific if you are in the right places.

Neither I in person ( seeing a henge ) myself, although I have seen many of the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Olmec, and Athenian / Greecian structure types.
I have heard about the Malta sites, and even of a henge in Egypt, which I am remiss in learning more of.
I would like to visit Orkney and some of the lesser famous sites on the Isles.
Many sites are placed on parallel or similar "tudes" and research has been finding much about these by mapping.
Even some of the American sites have similar geographical features it seems.
I am inclined to think that the Egyptians did not become immediately expert builders.
I am also inclined to think that they learned these processes ( NOT from aliens ) but from the Summerians by way of ??
Which brings me in a round about way to the predecessors ( ? ) of your above long boat. ( incredible piece is it not ? )
The Book of Enoch speaks of the "watchers" and people from the north who had great knowledge.
My interest is rekindled..
Perhaps tomorrow I will come out from under the used car and try and catch up on some reading.
Regards,
Haystackneedle

P.S. Please post photo of little viking dude wearing a rebel flag !!!!!:D

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These are more what I had in mind. http://www.quietpress.com/vikingbrooch.html

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This gentleman has contributed something immeasurable to his people's history and culture. I'm sure he's very proud. Although they should have given him a lifetime pass!


The thing about selling them is, they're too rare to find a buyer. They're unique. Spanish Doubloons are uncommon, but there's a market and a process for selling, trading, and buying. Trying to sell these would be like trying to find a buyer for the stolen "The Scream".

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nice http://www.quietpress.com/Images3/W-58A.JPG