Mariusz Stepien Scottish treasure hunter buff. Accidentally his metal detector found a hoard of objects from the bronze age!
Find Stepien dates back to the 1000-900 BC and includes the horse harness and a sword. The items were found at a depth of slightly less than one meter. About the treasure Mariusz Stepien immediately reported to archaeologists.
After this discovery and professional researchers worked at this place for 22 days and found the sword, still in sheath, embellished belts, buckles, rings, jewelry and caps from the wheels of the chariot. Stephen and his friends were also present at the excavation of the 22 day, determined to witness the excavation from beginning to end.
“I was in seventh heaven,” says treasure hunter. “I’m so glad that the earth has revealed to me what was hidden for 3,000 years. I still can’t believe it happened!”.
Archaeologists say that they are very lucky, as the soil preserved organic materials such as wood and leather, this allowed the scientists to see how were connected by the objects between straps. “This is a nationally important find. So few hoards of the bronze age was unearthed in Scotland that this is an amazing opportunity for us to restore not only bronze artifacts, but also look at organic material,” — commented the scientists.
Below you can see a 3D model found the sword in the scabbard.
