Silver hoard from Gåtebo
The silver hoard of Gåtebo or treasure trove of Skedstad ( Swedish Silverskatten i Gåtebo or Skattfyndet från Skedstad ) was found in 2009 near Bredsätra on the Swedish island of Öland . It is the second largest silver treasure that has been recovered on Öland so far. The find consists of 1189 coins and other silver objects with a total weight of around 1700 grams.
The most recent coin was minted around 1029 in Lincoln , England, under Canute the Great . 691 coins come from Germany, another 391 from England. The treasure contains a smaller number of Islamic-Arabic, Volga-Bulgarian, Italian, Bohemian, Irish, Danish and Scandinavian coins (some without a more precise geographical assignment). So far unique for Sweden is a coin from India of the Bull and Horseman type , which was minted between 980 and 1000 in Ohind in what is now northern Pakistan . In addition to the coins, some pieces of jewelry and a small lead plate with part of a runic inscription were found.
In the vicinity of the site there are settlement remains from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages . A large number of iron bars and a little later a gold pot were found there in 1972.
The silver hoard is now in the Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm , where it was shown in a special exhibition in 2014.
literature
- Eeva Jonsson: En rik handelsmans silverskatt. Kungliga Myntkabinettet, Stockholm 2013.
Web links
- Description ( Memento from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frédéric Elfver: En rik handelsmans silverskatt. (Meeting) . In: Svensk Numismatisk Tidskrift . No. 2 , 2014, p. 40 f . ( online [PDF; accessed December 22, 2014]).
- ↑ I vikingars spår. (No longer available online.) Kungliga Myntkabinettet , archived from the original on December 22, 2014 ; Retrieved December 22, 2014 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
