Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of Viking treasure that was hidden for more than a 1,000 years.
The treasure was found on a mountainside in Årdal, Hjelmeland municipality, in Norway, the University of Stavanger (UiS) announced in a press release.
The treasure consists of four silver bracelets, each featuring different decorations. Based on their appearance, they have been roughly dated to the 9th-10th centuries, Volker Demuth, an archaeologist with the UiS Museum of Archaeology, who was part of the discovery team, told Newsweek.
This suggests the artifacts date to the Viking Age, a period in medieval history between roughly the late 8th and 11th centuries, when the Vikings—a Scandinavian seafaring people—raided, colonized, and traded widely across Europe and beyond.
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