Archaeologists find silver treasure on German Baltic island

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BERLIN (AP) – Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea.
A single silver coin was first found in January by two amateur archaeologists (with metal detectors), one of them a 13-year-old boy, in a field near the village of Schaprode. The state archaeology office then became involved and the entire treasure was uncovered by experts over the weekend, the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania state archaeology office said Monday.
....so , it was all brought to the surface - this month! That's treasure in the news...!
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/scie...ncover-silver-treasure-on-German-12836976.php
 

what a find
 

yes, a classic case of good luck and being in the right spot, at the right time...!
It's what dreams are made of...!
 

Have you ever noticed that when we detectorists find treasure for ourselves, archeologists call us "looters" and worse but when we find treasure and turn it over to them, suddenly we become "amateur archeologists"?
~Texas Jay
 

Have you ever noticed that when we detectorists find treasure for ourselves, archeologists call us "looters" and worse but when we find treasure and turn it over to them, suddenly we become "amateur archeologists"?
~Texas Jay

Right on, and any little bit of documentation that we might do, becomes "science" to The Powers That Be... :laughing7:
And, to us, we feel professional in what we do - research, research and more, to find the stuff we do find,
and bring it to the public's knowledge or view, to recover and touch history, to learn more........
"amateur archeologists"..? I guess...!
 

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