Antiquities student from Florida found rare gold in the ninth century during her first drilling in the United Kingdom

American archaeologist was found in the first digging of a rare piece of gold in the ninth century.

Yara Souza, who is from Orlando, Florida, an international student at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and she was part of July in Redeseld, Norutherland, in northeastern England when she discovered about 90 minutes of fossils, The university announced.

“I couldn’t believe that I found something quickly in the first digging,” Souza said in a press statement. “After I had to miss Berdoswald last year, it was surprising that he had discovered something that he had not seen for more than a thousand years, I really brought it out.”

Birdoswald Roman Fort is another excavation in which Newcastle University students participated last year.

According to the university, the early Middle Ages – about 1.5 inches with decorative finals at one end – was buried near Derry Street, a main Roman road running between York, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. Deir Street was still used after the fall of the Roman Empire and continued to become part of the modern A68 highway.

Archaeological students, along with archaeologists from the northeastern museums, were investigating the site because it was the site of discovering an opportunity for a similar object in 2021.

“This is an exciting discovery of exceptional quality,” said James Gerard, a professor of archeology at Newcastle University. “We know that Deir Street continued to be a major street after a long period of Romans and agrees with this discovery that high people were using it.”

According to the university, gold was considered a high position and was only used by the elite. Expert experts believe that the object found by Souza and the one who was discovered in 2021 could have had religious or festive use.

“It is possible that this pair of things was intentional,” Jarad added.

The piece will be more analyzed and can be eventually displayed in a local museum.