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.

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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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