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In Denmark, seven curled silver arm rings dating to the Viking era were found by an archaeology student using a metal detector.
The rings are thought to be from 800 CE, placing them within the early Viking era (793 CE–1066 CE)...
The hoard weighs more than 500 grams total. Silver was highly valuable in the Viking Age and could be used for payment and transactions, as well as asserting wealth...
Here is the link for more about that hoard.7 'Stunning' Viking Silver Arm Rings Discovered in Denmark (artnews.com)
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Mark G. sent the following email.
Thank you for the 8/19 post on tools of the trade and the reminder to clean and organize my work bench. I’m on my second year of detecting and I am accumulating stuff/junk/valuables to a lesser amount than someone 20 years or more in the hobby of course, hope to be there someday. For organizing I have been using washed spaghetti sauce jars for sorting my finds (“GOO GONE” works well for removing the glue from the labels), although now I find myself buying spaghetti sauce just for the shape of the jar rather than the brand. I am also accumulating tools, starting with the basic magnifying glass then to the loop and ending with the “coin reader” microscope with a 7” screen. Then I gathered the testers, of course the first tool is the diamond tester (tested on wife’s jewelry no diamond finds yet), I even got a Dichroscope for determining Gems if you can figure out how to use it. Once all that is determined you are going to want a scale to value the find. Then you need to store the valuable finds, I use the small ring boxes, seems to work good for displaying. My last accrual was a ring anvil and hammer for sizing and rounding rings that are bent. All these simple tools are found on websites and are relatively inexpensive for the novice when purchased a little at a time as your hoard grows.
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| Plastic Containers For Storing Coins and Other Small Finds. |
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| Small Milk Glass Cosmetic Containers. |
Also containers like the ones shown above have smooth rounded bottoms rather than little corners making it easy to slide items out, and one thing I really like is that the white smooth bottom makes it really easy to see every grain of sand or piece of material that detaches from the item being cleaned. As a result, you can really see how the cleaning process is progressing.
I find these containers when bottle hunting. They aren't worth much, but I like milk glass and keep some of them. Most are vintage. The one on the right above, is marked on the bottom Bristol-Myers Mums. Mums was purchased by Bristol Myers in 1932.
Most of the milk glass encountered today was made by Westmoreland Glass and Fenton Glass. Wesmoreland began making milk glass in the 1920s, while Fenton started in the 1940s.