TY - JOUR AU - Grundvad, Lars PY - 2021/09/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Jernalderofringer fra Stavsager Høj ved Fæsted - en foreløbig præsentation af deponeringer og kontekster JF - Arkæologi i Slesvig-Archäologie in Schleswig JA - AIS VL - 2020 IS - 18 SE - Artikler DO - UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/arkaeologi_i_Slesvig/article/view/128612 SP - 119-138 AB - <p>In the winter of 2017/2018, a team of<br>amateur<br>archaeologists discovered a<br>previously unknown site which contained<br>several weapon deposits roughly<br>dating to the period AD 150 – 550.<br>Based on the data they had collected it<br>was possible to narrow down four concentrations,<br>of which three consisted<br>mainly<br>of various types of weapons.<br>Museum Sønderskov has since excavated<br>these three sites with financial support<br>from the Danish Department of<br>Castles and Culture<br>The results are exciting. Not only<br>has it been possible to excavate and rescue<br>the weapon deposits from ploughing<br>activities,<br>it has also been possible<br>to establish<br>that a multi-phased<br>well-founded longhouse was used for<br>multiple depositions which actually<br>consisted of more than just weapons.<br>Equally interesting were three larger<br>dark culture layers where especially<br>one revealed the remains of an intense<br>destruction of copper alloy artifacts<br>such as belt fittings, brooches, parts of<br>drinking horns etc.<br>This paper is a preliminary presentation<br>of the results of the surveys<br>which have been conducted at this<br>newly found site. Furthermore, it is a<br>presentation of the theory that these<br>deposits are part of the pre-Christian<br>rituals carried out in a region that today<br>is named after the god Frey. A series of<br>depositions where the gold hoard »The<br>Fæsted Hoard« from the 10th century is<br>the so far youngest.</p> ER -