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The Havor Ring. The Havor hoard (Swedish: Havorskatten) is an Iron Age treasure found in 1961, in Hablingbo on the Swedish island of Gotland.It consists of a large gold torc, known as the Havor Ring, along with several well-preserved bronze objects and was buried inside a Roman bronze situla in the mound surrounding a hillfort.
The Siljan Ring (Swedish: Siljansringen) is a prehistoric impact structure in Dalarna, central Sweden. [1] It is one of the 15 largest known impact structures on Earth and the largest in Europe , with a diameter of about 52 kilometres (32 mi).
The ring, preserved at the Swedish history museum, became known as the "Allah ring" because of the pseudo-Kufic inscription found on the ring's glass that resembles the word Allah (Arabic: الله). While other rings were found at the Birka excavations, the "Allah ring" was the only one that had this type of inscription.
The 1,400-year-old gold ring found in Emmerlev as seen from below. “To make such a unique and one-of-a-kind find is completely surreal. I am very proud and honored to be able to contribute a ...
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The Bedale Hoard, discovered in Bedale in North Yorkshire in 2012, featuring a number of rings.. Arm, finger and neck rings dating to the Early Medieval Period have been found in hoards throughout Northern Europe, such as the Spillings Hoard in Gotland and the Silverdale Hoard in Lancashire. [1]
In Sweden, two thirds of coin finds come from Gotland with finds of approximately 259 524 coins from the Viking Age across all of Sweden. [24] In addition to those in Gotland, significant finds have been made on the island of Oland, off the Swedish coast. Eighth and ninth century coins found here are generally made up of Arabic coins mostly.
The Curmsun Disc is a convex-concave gold disc that gained scholarly attention in 2014 after an 11-year-old Polish girl in Sweden showed it to her history teacher. Some scholars have tentatively dated the disc to the 10th to 12th century, although its authenticity is not universally accepted by historians or archaeologists.