A Norwegian man made a unique discovery back in the 80s while he was digging out a water well. His daughter was recently cleaning the basement of his house when she rediscovered what turned out to be a rare cache of 1,000-year-old Norse treasures.
Grete Margot Sørum witnessed her father discovering a collection of 32 iron bars back in the 1980’s when he dug out a well near their house near Aurdal, in Valdres, central Norway. Having rediscovered the iron bars, Sørum recently handed them over to the Valdres Folkemuseum in Fagernes.
According to Mildri Een Eide, a County Archaeologist in Innlandet, each of the narrow objects has a hole in one end, which means they were at one time tied together in a bunch. And while this find is essentially a heap of scrap iron, the archaeologist says they ‘remind us of a very special story” that tells of ancient Iron Age alchemists and Middle Ages iron trading.
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