The deposit is a weapon sacrificeliterally, the weapons were the things sacrificed.
We suddenly feel very close to the people who lived here 1,500 years ago.
The bracteates were etched with a design reminiscent of the chainmail found at the site.
An excavator working on a group of swords recently discovered near Hedensted.Photo: Vejle Museums
The team also recovered ceramics and flint objects; by their reckoning, the site was occupied for millennia.
War booty was common in central Europe during the first few centuries CE.
According to theNational Museum of Denmark, 20 Danish bogs contained Iron Age weaponry with traces of ritual destruction.
Those weapons may have been offerings to the gods.
In one of the houses, the weaponry was deposited during the houses deconstruction.
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