Thanks to His Metal Detector, a Man Spotted 17th-Century Religious Medallions Buried in the Fields Around His Village: What Were They Doing There?

Science-et-vie.com

Factuality

Ownership

A metal detector that begins to be paged, and four centuries of history that go back to the surface. Cornel Braunwalder, a Wohlen resident, has been looking for the fields of Freiamt, in the canton of Aargau, for the sake of cantonal archaeology. On plots around Villmergen, he discovered a series of religious medallions dating from the 17th to the 20th century. The cantonal archaeology of Aargau considered the find important enough to devote a l…