Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...

But it turned out to be a Viking Age iron arm bracelet that could be more than 1,000 years old. After the anonymous man discovered the artifact, he contacted a local archaeologist, who advised him ...

The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder ... Board The rare armband is at least about 1,000 years old and probably survived because of the surrounding wetland and its low ...

The ancient Roman aqueduct is visible ... a passerby discovered a rare Viking armband in a wetland. This iron artifact, shaped like a “C” with animal head ends, is one of only three such ...

But it turned out to be a Viking Age iron arm bracelet that could be more than 1,000 years old. After the anonymous man discovered the artifact, he contacted a local archaeologist, who advised him to ...

Karl-Oskar Erlandsson (an archaeologist from Kalmar) said that from the over 1,000 Viking-era bracelets in the country’s State Historical Museum, only three of the ancient objects are made of iron.