Museum curators in the Netherlands think that a dazzling, 1,200-year-old array of gold jewelry and silver coins unearthed by a metal detectorist was buried in a medieval swamp to save it during wartime.
A metal detectorist in the Netherlands has discovered dazzling gold and silver treasures that were buried in a medieval swamp 1,200 years ago, possibly during wartime.A historian stumbled upon the riches in 2021, while searching with a metal detector in the small northern city of Hoogwoud, in the West Friesland region. Now, archaeologists at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities ) have dated the treasure back to the Middle Ages.
"Golden jewelry like this belonged only to the highest social classes, so this could have belonged to someone with great wealth and power, maybe even to the countess of Holland," Lorenzo Ruijter , who unearthed the treasure trove, told Live Science.
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