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-One of my wife’s ancestors found a sword dating back some 1,300 years on the farm we currently live on, and it has caused lots of annoyances over the years. T

by lb1lf 7y ago

-One of my wife’s ancestors found a sword dating back some 1,300 years on the farm we currently live on, and it has caused lots of annoyances over the years. The problem is that the national Norwegian archive of ancient artifact findings only register the property something is found on, not the exact location. Hence, a hundred years after a sword was found in a mountainside a mile away from where we live, I have to obtain permission from an archaeologist every time I put a shovel in the ground, more or less... The sword looks cool, though. (On display in a museum; no such thing as finder’s keepers for such old things - very rightly so!)

TSiege 7y ago
Do you have a link to the piece in the collection? I'd love to see it.
- lb1lf 7y ago
  I’ll ask - I have to admit I’ve only seen it once - when at the museum, I asked kindly and a curator took mercy upon me, gave me a cup of coffee and proceeded to locate the sword from storage. I know a sizable part of the collection is being digitized - I’ll check!
  - TSiege 7y ago
    Thanks!
samirillian 7y ago
How big is this farm?
- lb1lf 7y ago
  -Not very big; approximately a square kilometer (.4 sqm) all told - most of which is forest and a mountainside. Some 30,000sqm arable land, all of which is maintained by neighbours who are active farmers -both my wife and I are engineers.
  - RandomBacon 7y ago
    Can you divide the land so that the actual area it was found is on a different property?