A lorean king gathered the people and gave them the command to destroy countless weapons as a sacrifice offering. The area complied.
Over 1, 500 years later, scientists in , Denmark , merely found the” dramatic” objects.
Scientists started digging along a roadway in Løsning as part of a street development task, the , Vejle Museums , said in a , Nov. 21 , Facebook article.
” From the very first preliminary research, we could see this would be something impressive, but the construction has exceeded all our anticipations”, the excavation’s leader , Elias Witte Thomasen , said in a media release from the gallery.
Archaeologists found” close to 200 weapons”, a “very unique” armour clothing and different items from the Iron Age. Photos show a few of the half-buried relics, which included “lances, weapons, and swords”.
Based on the types of objects and their structure, scientists believe the 1, 500-year-old things were buried by a “powerful king” as a” compromise” or” an offering to higher power”.
According to the museum, the ancient offering was buried both at a newly constructed home and a destroyed one. At the demolition deposit,” the large, load-bearing posts were removed, and the weapons placed in the holes left behind”. At the construction deposit, the “weapons and military equipment ( were ) tightly packed around the load-bearing posts”.
The long-gone houses may have been” a chieftain’s residence”, the museum said.
One of the rarest finds at Løsning was the 1, 500-year-old chainmail shirt. The southern region of Scandinavia is home to “only a very small number of chainmail shirts from the Iron Age,” according to archaeologists. The newly found shirt is “incredibly valuable” and” the first discovered in association with a settlement”.
Photos show the dusty metal clothing during excavations. Although the item’s intertwined metal loops are clearly visible, the item’s overall shape is not.
According to the museum, excavations also revealed “fragments of two highly distinctive bronze neck rings.” These “oath rings” were likely chieftains ‘ possession of the power and influence of a ruler.
The “massive and remarkably well-preserved” collection had “enough weapons for a small army,” according to archaeologists.
The weapons could have come from “local warriors”, from the” spoils of war” or a combination of both, the museum said. Experts hope to answer those questions in follow-up laboratory analysis.
The sheer abundance of weapons is amazing in and of itself, Thomasen said, but what really fascinates me is the glimpse into the social structure and daily life of the Iron Age that these discoveries offer. 1,500 years ago,” we suddenly feel very close to the people who lived right here.”
The excavations at the site in Lsning started in August and continue. Løsning is a small town on continental , Denmark , and a roughly 160-mile drive west from , Copenhagen.
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