芬兰的一名金属探测爱好者出土了一批规模巨大的维京时代白银宝藏，据估计其中包含4000多枚硬币——这是该国迄今为止发现的同类最大宝藏。
A metal detectorist in Finland unearthed a massive Viking Age silver hoard estimated to contain more than 4,000 coins — the largest discovery of its kind ever found in the country.
这批宝藏由金属探测爱好者卡勒·拉皮宁（Kalle Lappinen）在距离赫尔辛基东北约105英里的小镇叙斯迈（Sysmä）村中心附近发现。
The hoard, uncovered by metal detectorist Kalle Lappinen, was found near the village center of Sysmä, a town about 105 miles northeast of Helsinki.
拉皮宁于9月3日发现了这批宝藏，并立即向当局进行了汇报。拉赫蒂博物馆（Lahti Museums）的考古学家们在第二天就开始回收这些白银。
Lappinen discovered the hoard on Sept. 3 and promptly reported it to authorities. Archaeologists from Lahti Museums began recovering the silver the very next day.
后院传出的诡异声音引导房主发现了拥有1000年历史的巨大宝藏 博物馆在一份新闻稿中表示，这批宝藏由“数千枚银币、碎银、一个银手镯、一个饰件和一颗珠子”组成。
PUZZLING SOUND IN BACKYARD LEADS HOMEOWNER TO MASSIVE 1,000-YEAR-OLD TREASURE The hoard consists of "thousands of silver coins, hack silver, a silver bracelet, a mount and a bead," according to a museum release.
这批宝藏包括来自当今瑞典、英国和德国的硬币，以及源自现今土耳其和伊朗地区的迪拉姆（dirham）银币。
The hoard includes coins from present-day Sweden, Britain and Germany, as well as dirhams originating from areas that are now part of Turkey and Iran.
据拉赫蒂博物馆考古学家埃斯科·蒂卡拉（Esko Tikkala）向福克斯新闻数字频道（Fox News Digital）透露，回收的硬币总重约10磅，据信可追溯至公元1000年至1050年之间。
The recovered coins weigh approximately 10 pounds in total and are believed to date to between 1000 and 1050 A.D., as Lahti Museums archaeologist Esko Tikkala told Fox News Digital.
蒂卡拉负责监督了这批宝藏的回收工作。他表示，这一年代测定目前仍属于初步阶段，将在硬币经过清理和深入研究后作进一步精确。
Tikkala oversaw the hoard's recovery. He said the dating remains preliminary and will be refined after the coins have been cleaned and thoroughly studied.
施工项目中出土了带有暴力砸碎痕迹之宝剑的神秘3000年宝藏 尽管蒂卡拉曾在该地区发掘过其他铁器时代晚期的宝藏，但他表示，叙斯迈发现的这批宝藏其庞大的规模令他感到惊讶。
MYSTERIOUS 3,000-YEAR-OLD HOARD WITH VIOLENTLY SMASHED SWORD EMERGES DURING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT While Tikkala has excavated other Late Iron Age hoards in the region, he said the sheer size of the Sysmä discovery surprised him.
他说：“我们通常遇到的是几十枚或几百枚硬币，而这次的发现包含数千枚。”
"Instead of the tens or few hundreds of coins we usually encounter, this find contains thousands," he said.
蒂卡拉表示，即使在这一初步阶段，这一发现也进一步证明了叙斯迈在铁器时代晚期曾是一个重要的枢纽，其贸易路线延伸至多个方向。
Even at this preliminary stage, Tikkala said the discovery adds to evidence that Sysmä was an important hub during the Late Iron Age, with trade connections extending in multiple directions.
他说：“如今，叙斯迈可能被认为是一个相对低调和偏远的地方，但从铁器时代晚期的考古材料来看，一千年前的情况似乎大不相同。”
"Today, Sysmä might be regarded as a relatively modest and peripheral place, but judging from the Late Iron Age archaeological material, the situation seems to have been very different a thousand years ago," he said.
蒂卡拉补充说，这批宝藏所含的硬币数量，也比芬兰此前已知的最大维京时代钱币窖藏多出一倍以上。芬兰最大的维京时代钱币窖藏于1895年在努西亚宁出土，内含大约1700枚硬币。
ANCIENT VIKING SWORD DISCOVERED 'STICKING UP OUT OF THE GROUND' AFTER 1,300 YEARS The hoard also contains more than twice as many coins as Finland's previously largest known Viking Age coin hoard, which was unearthed in Nousiainen in 1895 and contained approximately 1,700 coins, Tikkala added.
蒂卡拉表示，这批宝藏的主人是谁已无从考证，不过关于这些白银为何被埋藏，目前存在几种不同的假设。
The identity of the hoard's owner has been lost to time, Tikkala said, though several theories exist about why the silver was buried.
他补充说，这些硬币和其他物品被埋在一处低矮的岩石露头旁边，这些地方相对容易被重新挖出来。
The coins and other objects were buried beside a low rocky outcrop in spots where they could have been relatively easily recovered, he added.
然而，为什么它们的主人再也没有回来取回这笔宝藏，仍然是一个谜。
Why their owner never returned for the treasure, however, remains a mystery.
蒂卡拉说：“也许是一位商人为了妥善保管而埋下了部分财富，这样他就不用随身携带了，本打算下次重返该地区时再取回。”
CLICK HERE TO "Perhaps a merchant buried part of his wealth for safekeeping so that he did not have to carry it with him, intending to retrieve it the next time he returned to the area," Tikkala said.
他补充说：“或者，它可能属于当地的一位富裕居民，因为面临冲突或敌方袭击的威胁而将其埋藏。有许多可能的解释，要确定究竟发生了什么或主人是谁是非常困难的。”
"Alternatively, it may have belonged to a wealthy local inhabitant who buried it because of the threat of conflict or an enemy attack," he added. "There are many possible explanations, and it is very difficult to determine what actually happened or who the owner was." Frida Ehrnsten, keeper of the numismatic collections at the National Museum of Finland, told Fox News Digital that the discovery could give researchers a new understanding of how silver circulated in the region roughly 1,000 years ago.
芬兰国家博物馆钱币收藏馆馆长弗里达·埃尔恩斯滕（Frida Ehrnsten）对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，这一发现可以让研究人员对大约1000年前白银在该地区的流通情况有全新的认识。
CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "It’s a very, very, very important new find that will in some ways probably change our perception of the Viking Age silver economy here," Ehrnsten said.
埃尔恩斯滕说：“这是一个非常、非常、非常重要的重大新发现，它很可能会在某些方面改变我们对这里维京时代白银经济的认知。”
Ehrnsten noted that researchers generally do not describe the people living in Finland during the period as Vikings — as Vikings came from Scandinavia, which does not include Finland — though the term "Viking Age" is used to describe the broader era and cultural context.
埃尔恩斯滕指出，研究人员通常不会将生活在这一时期的芬兰人称为维京人——因为维京人来自斯堪的纳维亚，其中不包括芬兰——尽管“维京时代”这一术语被用来描述更广泛的时代和文化背景。
Shet said one of the most intriguing aspects of the discovery is that the silver was found in two separate deposits roughly 39 feet apart.
谢特表示，这一发现最引人入胜的方面之一是，这些白银是在大约39英尺（约12米）外的两个独立矿藏中被发现的。通过我们的最新生活方式测试来挑战自己“这有点像是双重宝藏，”她说。“在此之前，我们其实还没有发现过任何已知的此类实例。”埃恩斯滕还指出，业余金属探测爱好者在芬兰考古硬币发现激增的过程中发挥了重要作用。
TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "It’s kind of a double hoard," she said. "We haven’t really had any known examples of those from before." Ehrnsten also noted that hobby metal detectorists have played a major role in the surge of archaeological coin discoveries across Finland.
她说，大约25年前，芬兰已知的维京时代硬币大约有7,000枚。如今，这一数字已达到约14,000枚。
About 25 years ago, roughly 7,000 Viking Age coins were known from Finland, she said. Today, that number stands at around 14,000.
“这批新发现的绝大部分材料都是由以寻宝为业余爱好的人们找到的，”她补充道。
"Almost the whole body of this new material is made by people who go around searching [as] a hobby," she added.