A lucky amateur metal detectorist has made the “gold discovery of the century” including 9 pendants, 3 rings and 10 gold pearls dating back to the Roman Empire about 1500 years ago
An amateur metal detectorist in Norway has made the gold ‘find of the century’ including coins dating back around a millennium and a half. Erlend Bore, 51, believed he had come across some chocolate money when he made the find in a farmer’s field on Rennesoey island, near Stavanger, in late August. He was shocked to learn he had in fact dug up nine pendants , three rings and 10 gold pearls – some of which date back as far as the fall of the Roman Empire. Mr Bore said that he had bought his first metal detector only this year after his doctor ordered him to get out more instead of sitting on the sofa at home. Ole Madsen, director at the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, said that to find ‘so much gold at the same time is extremely unusual’. ‘This is the gold find of the century in Norway,’ he said, announcing the find today. Amateur archaeologist Erlend Bore poses with a gold treasure photographed shortly after he found it with the help of a metal ...
