<p><strong>It all started the day after New Year's Eve, first of January 2014.</strong> Since it had been a late night I didn't head out detecting before dinner. So I had to put on my headlamp as it was pitch black outside.</p> <p>After a few hours in the field the landowner came by and asked if I had found something nice. And I told her about a Viking age coin I had found last week, but as for today I had nothing but trash in my bag.</p> <p>Then she told me about this old path leading up to a ridge. It made me exited, and I headed towards the ridge. To get to it I had to face a barbed wire fence, somehow I managed to get over without getting stuck or damage my clothing.</p> <p>But because the night was dark I had trouble finding the path. So after digging a few signals I decided to just head to the top of the ridge and detect there instead. When I reached the top I had to rest a bit and then I got to it.</p> [split] <p>Just after a minute or two I got this really strong and solid iron signal. The "Target Trace" jumped all over the screen. As I started to pinpoint the headphones was screaming in my ears indicating something big and not too deep. I hoped it was a nice ax-head as I put my shovel into the soil. I cut out a nice big plug and flipped it over. I pulled out my PRO-FIND 25 and started to locating the find.</p> <p>But I soon realized this was something bigger than an ax-head, and got a bit disappointed. I now thought it was an old cooking pan or an old door to an oven. I had to extend the plug size to get whatever is down there out. After a bit of digging I found myself looking at a long narrow object. As I am looking at it I'm thinking for myself; Is it...? Can it be...? It can't be...! I carefully pulled it out and laid it on the ground. HOLY.... It IS a sword.</p> <p>I took a few pictures and put it back into the hole to its original position and covered it over with the dirt and plugs I had pulled out.</p> <p>(You see, In Norway, All objects and sites dating from before 1537AD is automatically protected by law. And is to be considered as the property of the government.)</p> <p>So I called up the county Archaeologist and told him about my find. He was thrilled to hear the good news, and congratulated me many times.</p> <p>So today (3. of January) he came to help me dig up the objects that I had exposed to the air. And to take them back to the museum to preserve them.</p> <p>After 3 hours of careful digging and documentation, he could pick up the Items. It turned out to be 1 Viking sword, 1 scythe and 1 Viking battle-ax.</p> <p>The Archaeologist said he think the Items dates back to about 700AD, early Viking age. <br>The "owner" grave was not to be found any remains of. Only the offering goods remained. <br>It is still two items left in the grave but they will not be excavated before the spring/summer.</p> <p>This is a true find of a lifetime.</p> Thank you for reading

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