– Last week, the objects were literally delivered on a silver platter, or rather, a tin platter, says archaeologist Kristine Sørgaard at the Archaeological Museum, University of Stavanger. Sørgaard was called to the reception who had just received a tin dish with a plastic bag from a donor who wished to remain anonymous. She was in no doubt when she opened the plastic bag with the weirdness in it. The oval buckles, bracelets and most of the pearls are typical of fine housewives in the ninth century. The find is of over 50 pearls and two costume buckles. Two bracelets, silver buckles and a pearl necklace with over 50 pearls – this is what the find looked like when it was delivered to the Archaeological Museum. Photo: Archaeological Museum Stavanger – The suit buckles have a seat on the chest and hold the harnesses on the dress together. These were mass-produced in the Viking Age, Sørgaard says. One of the blue pearls is similar to other pearls dated to the year 850, and therefore dates large parts of the find. This is a pearl that dates the entire find to the year 850. This is because it resembles pearls that have previously been dated. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news 70 years ago found – One can see on the surface of the buckle that she is very dusty. So it probably has a doctor in a stove. It is important that she was handed in now for preservation, says curator Louise MT Jensen. The donor is not the one who made the discovery, but the person in question has told the museum that it is about 70 years since the costume equipment was discovered in Frafjord in Gjesdal municipality. Sørgaard does not know the reason why the museum does not have wart contact until now. – It is often the case that people are afraid to submit findings because they believe that it can have terrible consequences. We try to inform that there is no need to fear that we, for example, will dig up the entire property, says Sørgaard. Curator Louise MT Jensen and archaeologist Kristine Orrestad Sørgaard show the tin dish with some of the Viking finds. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news Finds that are older than from 1537 must be reported and delivered to the Cultural Heritage Service. Fashionable pearls The objects tell a story about a woman in the upper strata of society. The pearl necklace has probably hung between the two oval buckles, as was the fashion at the time. This costume buckle probably belonged to a wealthy woman in the Viking Age. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news In the find, there are both mosaic pearls and gold and silver-foiled pearls that were to imitate gold and silver. But the most special is probably the three blue glass beads from the older Iron Age. They are more than a hundred years older than the other pearls. – Then the question is whether this is a mixture with an older grave. I do not know. Another possibility is that it is heirlooms that she inherited from women in the family.
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