A man from Norway decided a few months ago to follow his doctor’s advice and start walking more. He bought a metal detector for his new hobby and soon found his “horn hunting gold”.
Erlend Bohr, 51, made his remarkable discovery near the city of Stavanger. “I first thought of chocolate or coins,” he said in conversation with. CBS News. “It was completely unexpected.”
It is about nine gold medals, three gold rings and ten gold pearls. Ole Madsen, Director of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, talks about the “Norwegian gold discovery of this century”. “Finding so much gold at once is very special.” A similar penultimate find was made in the nineteenth century.
The museum will soon display the found objects. Burr was not lucky that pre-1650 finds go to the state. His items probably made about 500 pieces.
Under the same law, Bohr receives compensation. The same applies to the owner of the land on which the newly minted amateur archaeologist made his own find.
