Hi Ron71,
my dream is Gotland.
its not far away from west of germany where i live.
i already checked it out. i have to go by train to Lübeck.from there with a train to the coastline and with a ship to gotland.
180 euro about 190 us-dollar a one way trip.
i wanne go for a 2 week detecting vacation over there.
hunting is difficult without no information and permission.
to hunt on a Ground monument is there illegal,same as here in germany.
here a few infos and pictures from the "Holy Grail" in metal detecting.
Gotland is a Swedish island and historical province. The second largest island in the Baltic Sea after Seeland (Denmark) and before Funen (Denmark) and Saaremaa (Estonia) lies northeast of Öland. It has its name from the Germanic tribes of the Goths, who left the island at least partially according to the Gutasaga, in order to erect large empires on the continent, later as the Visigoths and the Visigoths, in the Mediterranean region.
The island was first populated by hunters and collectors. The skeletal finds of Stenkyrka and Lummelunda are about 8000 years old. Thus they are not only the oldest in Gotland, but also belong to the oldest in Sweden. Around 2000 BC hunters were displaced by farmers. A little later the bronze came to the island. The Iron Age began as in the rest of the north around 500 BC The settlements also served as trade places. Archaeologists Feuerstein have been found in several of them, which originates from southern Sweden; Arrow tops of slate came from central Sweden or Norrland and amber from the southern Baltic Sea.
The more than 800 Viking-time finds on the island, including the three Halls of Spillings (only 65 kg of silver with a material value of 600,000 €) recovered in 2000, can be seen in Stockholm.
The fact that Kurian weapons and jewelery came to Gotland are decorated with ornamental needles, fibulae and swords from the 10th century. There were utensils, as they occur in the vicinity of Klaipėda and Kretinga, on the gothic coast. The tomb in Hugleifs demonstrates the presence of cures on the island. The finds indicate trade relations with the Baltic, but only in the 10th and 11th centuries.