A Norwegian woman has found 32 Viking or medieval iron ingots while cleaning her parents’ home in County Valdres. On this subject informed NRK This is the first discovery of this type in Valdres for a hundred years, notes the channel.
Norwegian Greta Margot Sørum discovered ancient artifacts in the basement of a house. According to the woman, her father discovered the ingots while digging a well near the house in the 1980s, but then “stowed them away in a corner”.
All ingots are the same shape and size, each weighs around 50g and has a hole in its end. This indicates that the bars were tied together and used as payment, archaeologist Mildry En Eide said. Experts say someone buried the ingots to come back for later, but they remained in the ground. The ingots found were transferred to the museum.
Near where Father Sørum first discovered the ingots was the Royal Road, a network of roads linking medieval Sweden with the provinces. More than a thousand years ago there was a great trade.
Iron was an important commodity in the Viking Age, NRK notes. It was used to make weapons and rivets. In the great valleys of southern Norway and in the central region of Trøndelag, the metal was mined from swamps in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages.
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