Forty-six silver objects found by accident in central Norway turned out to be a Viking Age treasure.
An accidental finding made by a citizen tinkling around with a metal detector in central Norway turned out to be a treasure from the Viking Age.
Maixner, who works at the University Museum of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, explained that on the Continent and in Western Europe, coins started to be used as early as the Merovingian period , but it was only towards the end of the Viking Age—late in the 9th century—that coins began to be minted in Norway. Up until the Viking Age, a barter economy was common in the Nordic countries, but by the end of the 8th century, the weight economy was making inroads.
Most of the pieces of silver that were found weighed less than one gram, which suggests that they were used repeatedly as means of payment. That the owner might have been involved in trading is, thus, a reasonable conjecture.
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