A man has found an Iron-Age Viking sword and jewelry while clearing some undergrowth in his forest in Finland. The local heritage committee does not have the cash to dig them up.
A man has found an Iron-Age Viking sword and jewelry while clearing some undergrowth in his forest in Finland. The local heritage committee does not have the cash to dig them up.
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Janakkala area seems to have been a bit bigger of a settlement than previously estimated, they’ve found quite a bit of stuff in that area lately.
Yle article: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12669937
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Janakkala=Jänicke, Janicke or something like that, maybe, because Vojakkala was named after some German Vojacke. They say that some ancient Germanic tribe lived in Finland even before Viking Time. We are a mixture of many different populations.
Could be the items of a more important Viking. Iron was very valuable and swords were not a common weapon and AFAIK vikings used weapons that used less material, like axes and knives and such.
With metal detectors being widely available, and there being a bit of a boom about finding stuff like this, the heritage committee is totally overloaded with finds (while this case didn’t involve metal detecting). Finds that would be fine in the soil where they were found, are now subjected to oxygen, and deteriorating in the long, long line of finds trying to make it to conservation.
Finds like this are so fascinating. My partner does metal-detecting and while he’s never found a sword, he’s made some very cool discoveries.
While raking the forest
There was a tortoise pendant or something. How did the Vikings know about tortoises ? Honest question.