Boys discovered uncommon silver treasure beneath church, stored it in field for 60 years — till now
A pair of boys determined to go treasure searching in Norway. They figured the native church was a great place to go looking and crawled beneath the constructing. Buried within the grime, the boys found a number of silver cash.
That was in 1964.
Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes mentioned he and his brother didn’t understand the importance of their discover on the time. However treasure was treasure, so that they packed the cash in a field and stored them.
Sixty years later, archaeologists acquired their first look on the boys’ discover, Møre and Romsdal County Municipality mentioned in a March 6 information launch. Fugelsnes nonetheless lives within the space and advised archaeologists in regards to the cash after investigations started on the Edøy church the place the boys discovered the treasures.
The set of 14 silver cash turned out to be extremely uncommon, 600-year-old artifacts, archaeologist Carl Fredrik Wahr-Hansen Vemmestad.
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Most cash dated from the 1300s to 1350s, however one coin dated between 1450 and 1481, officers mentioned. A number of cash have been marked with crowns.
Solely a handful of these kinds of cash have ever been present in central Norway, Vemmestad mentioned within the launch. The age and site of the cash suggests they have been a part of a burial mound beneath the Edøy church within the Center Ages.
The world beneath the church had been dug out by German troops and used for ammunition storage throughout World Warfare II, officers mentioned.
Fugelsnes and his brother additionally discovered 9 needles, three steel fittings and an amber pearl beneath the church, he advised researchers.
Archaeologists recognized the bead as a part of a prayer wreath and the 700-year-old needles as a part of the deceased’s clothes.
Sixty-seven-year-old Fugelsnes gave the rare coins to archaeologists, the Norwegian outlet NRK reported. The artifacts have been despatched to a museum for additional evaluation.
Edøya is an island in Møre and Romsdal county and about 250 miles northwest of Oslo.
Google Translate was used to translate the information launch from Møre and Romsdal County Municipality and article from NRK.
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