After being ordered not to sit on the couch all day by a doctor, Norwegian man Erlend Bore, who picked up a metal detector as part of a hobby, found an ancient gold necklace dating back to A.D. 500.

Erlend Bore needed to get out of the house more. That’s what his doctor told him. He suggested that Bore find a hobby to keep him outdoors. So Bore thought back to his youth and a long-abandoned ...

A Norwegian man had barely unwrapped his new metal detector when he discovered what experts have described as the “gold find of the century.” Erlend Bore, 51, told NBC News by telephone Thursday that ...

A man in Denmark with a metal detector found a gold ring from the sixth century possibly linked to a powerful, forgotten family, photos show. Photo from Ulrik Pedersen, Tøndermarsk Ini via the ...