An unusual arm ring from the Viking Age has been found by a private individual on Öland, reports P4 Kalmar.
What is unusual is that this one is made of iron, says Karl-Oskar Erlandsson, archaeologist at the County Administrative Board in Kalmar, to the radio.
Only three of over 1,000 arm rings in the State Historical Museum's collections are made of iron, according to Karl-Oskar Erlandsson.
But the wetland where the arm ring was found is also an unusual find site.
It could be a sacrificial bog, that they have sacrificed to the gods or higher powers. So then there may be more objects in this wetland, so we will investigate the surrounding area with a metal detector.
