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Amateur Archaeologists Unearth Viking Gold

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Archaeology - Denmark

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Viking gold

After hours of searching through the mud with metal detectors, amateur archaeologists Frank Pelle and Bent Gregersen made the discovery of their lives on a ploughed field in Bornholm earlier in April. The two lucky gold-diggers found an ancient Viking gold treasure hidden in the ground. “It was an amazing feeling, for we had searched for hundreds of hours without luck,” Pelle told Ekstra Bladet.

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