'An amateur archeologist has made an unusual sixth century find at the burial
mounds in Sättuna on the outskirts of Linköping.
On the first day of excavations at the site in the south east of Sweden,
Niklas Krantz discovered a patrix, a sort of die used to emboss pieces of gold.
"Only six or seven of these patrices - patterns for the manufacture of golden
figures depicting human images - have been found.
"They come from very high status environments in southern Scandinavia," said
excavation manager Martin Rundkvist told Sveriges Radio.
This particular stamp, which is approximately two centimetres long and one
centimetre wide, portrays a woman who resembles a troll.'
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