Discoveries by country

Metal Detecting Finds in Iceland

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Iceland — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Iceland

1 find

Showing only Artefacts found in Iceland. Show all Iceland finds, or see Artefacts from everywhere.

Famous findLate Viking Age, about AD 950 to 1100 · found 1816

The Eyrarland Figure: a tiny bronze of Thor, or Christ, dug up on an Icelandic farm

Iceland · ArtefactsFF 280

Around 1815 or 1816 someone digging on the farm of Eyrarland, near Akureyri in north Iceland, turned up a little bronze figure of a seated, bearded man gripping a hammer-like object. It is usually seen as the god Thor, and is one of Iceland's national treasures.