One expert concluded that the buckle dates from between 780 and 850
A family in Norway were searching for a lost gold earring in their garden when they decided to get their metal detector out.
They did not find the earring but did stumble upon something else: artefacts dating back more than 1,000 years.
The Aasvik family dug up a bowl-shaped buckle and another item that appear to be part of a Viking-era burial.
Experts believe the artefacts were used in the ninth-century burial of a woman on the small island of Jomfruland.
The discovery was made under a large tree in the centre of the family's garden on the island, off Norway's south coast.
"We congratulate the family who found the first safe Viking-time find at Jomfruland," the Cultural Heritage of Vestfold and Telemark County Council wrote in a Facebook post.
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