The ring likely belonged to a powerful Viking chief.
A large, gold Viking ring crafted from twisted metal strands turned up in a very unexpected place: a heap of cheap jewelry a woman in Norway purchased at an online auction. Archaeologists think the ring may be more than 1,000 years old and once belonged to a powerful Viking chief.
"It was bright and gold. It looked very special, was roughly made," Heskestad told the newspaper in Norwegian."I reacted to it being so heavy. It glistened and stuck out among the other jewelry." After showing it to her family, Heskestad drove to the headquarters of her regional government, located in the city of Bergen in Vestland County, and showed it to archaeologists there.
Similar rings have been found before, in both gold and silver, featuring a twist of wide and narrow filaments of metal, Wølstad added. It's almost impossible to scientifically date metal objects, but the style of the ring shows it was probably made during the Viking Age, between the eighth and the 11th centuries A.D."It's not from the Norwegian Middle Ages, which is after the Viking Age," Wølstad said.
Heavy metalThe ring weighs about 0.4 ounce , or about three times more than a simple modern gold ring, according to the news site Science Norway .
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