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It’s unusual to achieve something on the first try, but Klaus Falsby’s first successful performance in metal detecting was more than just unusual. it was not unusual.
A metal detector has uncovered 2,500-year-old Late Bronze Age artefacts, including a ceremonial folded sword and a rare necklace, in a bog in the municipality of Egedal, Denmark statement by the ROMU Museum in Denmark, highlight the crucial transition between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Northern Europe.
Falsby alerted ROMU as soon as he realized he had (literally) hit the jackpot, the statement said. The museum immediately dispatched archaeologists to investigate, who confirmed the artifacts were part of a “hoard,” or sacrificial offering. among other things, they unearthed a ritually bent sword, two small bronze axes, an “ankle rings’ and a fragment of a possible clothes pin.
Believe it or not, Falsby’s second outing was just as successful. A few days later, he found another impressive sacrificial artifact 231 feet (70 meters) from the first discovery: a large ornate bronze necklace, only the second of its kind ever found. discovered in Denmark, ROMU archaeologists have dated all the artifacts, called the Egedal find, to ca. BC 500 AD, marking the region’s transition period between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.
“It’s what I would describe as a very rare find. We have a lot of these storage finds from the early and middle Bronze Age,” ROMU archaeologist Emil Winter Struve said in a statement We don’t know much about the late Bronze Age. with existing society, recedes here at the end of the Bronze Age.”
The sword, a bronze with iron rivets, is a particularly apt representation of this transition. In fact, its rivets may be the earliest iron found in Denmark. It was allegedly bent into an S shape before being offered, researchers concluded. that the sword came from the warlike Hallstatt culture that lived north of the Alps.
“Before, swords were weak and could be used for stabbing. But now they are getting harder, stronger, and have a different weight, so you can use them more brutally and cut. The culture of Hallstatt, which is spreading relatively quickly, has a warrior an ideal and aggressive structure that calls for conquest, war and conflict. The sword is probably the epitome of that,” explained Struve. “We don’t have many swords like that in Denmark.” Struve and his colleagues speculated that the bronze necklace also came from abroad, specifically from the shores of Poland.
The artifacts, along with earlier discoveries, offer scholars a more comprehensive understanding of the Bronze Age sacrificial traditions in what is now Denmark. is Bronze Age traditions to the beginning of the Iron Age, according to archaeologists.And talk about beginner’s luck.
