500yr Old Estonian Jewelry

"Local resident Aivar Piirsalu from the town of Öötla in Järva County was exploring a seemingly ordinary field with his metal detector on October 26, when he discovered and dug out jewelry from 500 years ago.

After digging a 35-centimeter hole, Piirsalu called archeologist Mauri Kiudsoo to the scene, wrote the newspaper, Järva Teataja. They found nine greenish chest ornaments, as well as five silver beads and several gold-plated silver pendants."

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Below is a VERY ROUGH translation of the actual source article from the original Estonian site.

"Typical Järvamaa resourceful! "Said archaeologist examined the treasures of Estonia Mauri Kiudsoo Öötla the village the day before yesterday in the field, which was dug out about half a thousand-year-old costume jewelry treasure.

Flower on Monday combed the village municipality Öötla man Aivar Piirsalu metal detectors completely normal fields. He then was never found, although a few coins, but nothing special. "If the processor along the trail by taking the wheel suddenly began detector signal that something important is in the ground, thought that probably it is a metallikolakas," he explained.

Piirsalu dug a hole about 35-40 inches deep, and looked at him with a greenish discs. "I thought this is slang, but when it came to the silver thing (Kroll - editor), I realized that there is something else, and told it to heritage conservation," he explained.

Already the day before yesterday stood spades kellude, brush, and instrumented with specialists in the field, and four hours, baring the hidden secret of the earth's crust.

Carefully examine the archaeological treasures excavated in Estonia Mauri Kiudsoo chair about 40 cm deep hole in the bottom end of the brush was cleaned out of nine breast ornamentation käelabasuurust site of what women wore around the neck.

In addition, it became apparent krõlli way, a few beads and plated hõberipatseid, which were parts of a necklace. Jewellery from the ferocity the remnants of a wooden bottom."