Cache of Iron Age Weapons Unearthed in Denmark

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-24 01:39:38 | Updated at 2025-01-24 05:03:21 3 hours ago

Cache of Iron Age Weapons Unearthed in Denmark
Archaeology News ^ | December 3, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 01/23/2025 5:28:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv

A team of archaeologists uncovered a trove of weapons, armor, and other goods in Denmark, in advance of a motorway being built on the site.

The deposit is a weapon sacrifice—literally, the weapons were the things sacrificed. Over 1,500 years ago, an Iron Age community deposited over 100 lances, spears, swords, knives, arrowheads, and more across two houses on the site. Taken together, the deposit is a compelling look into the social and military wheelings and dealings of the group that inhabited the region.

Based on the way the items were deposited, the archaeological team concluded that the site was not a weapons workshop or a barracks—settings where piles of weapons would not be out of place...

The exact count of the metal objects found at the site is as follows: 119 lances and spears, eight swords, five knives, three arrowheads, one axe, one set of chainmail armor, fragments of at least two oath rings and a bugle, a bridle, and some yet-to-be identified objects.

The rings were bracteates: bronze medallions which would be worn around the neck and often expressed the wearers' political or military allegiance. The bracteates were etched with a design reminiscent of the chainmail found at the site. According to the release, the chainmail is the first discovered on a settlement in southern Scandinavia, rather than in a burial or other deposit.

The team also recovered ceramics and flint objects; by their reckoning, the site was occupied for millennia. By the early 400s, the settlement held significant social and economic influence in the area, according to the museums release, allowing it to send out military campaigns to the surrounding area.

(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...

TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: boatingaccident; denmark; godsgravesglyphs; ironage; middleages

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1 posted on 01/23/2025 5:28:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 01/23/2025 5:29:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

Sweet, you found my arms and armerments. Let me know when you can send them. I’ll provide the money for packaging and shipping.

3 posted on 01/23/2025 5:33:52 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )

To: SunkenCiv

Early preppers.

Weapons don’t get sacrificed, they get used or hidden.

4 posted on 01/23/2025 5:35:59 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)

To: SunkenCiv

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