Etikett: Museum
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Advent calendar Flap 5, the Stala Pickaxe
Flap 6 Behind flap 6 in this year’s Advent calendar is the so-called Stala Pickaxe. It was found on the island of Orust in Bohuslän, Sweden and received its name from Stala parish, where it was discovered in 1857. In 1867 it was displayed at the World Exhibition in Paris, and a few years later…
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Advent calendar Flap 5, the Hedeby Mask
Flap 5 Behind flap 5 in the Advent calendar we find the Hedeby Mask. This mask was discovered during excavations at the Viking Age trading town of Hedeby/Haithabu. According to archaeologists, it had been reused as caulking in the hull of a Viking ship. The mask is felted from wool and shaped like an animal.…
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Forshem Church
Swedish translation below. This spring, I visited Forshem Church, about four kilometers east of Hällekis in Västergötland, Sweden. This is not my first visit to this unique medieval church, built in 1135 from sandstone. The church has been dated through dendrochronological studies of the roof trusses, which visitors can examine inside the church where they…
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Eketorp Borg
English version below the Swedish text. Under årets resa till Öland så stod ett återbesök till fornborgen Eketorp högt på min lista. Jag var där för ca 13 år sedan när jag studerade Hållbar Turismutveckling på Högskolan i Halmstad. Vi besökte borgen då den är ett mycket gott exempel på hur man kan levandegöra kulturarvet.…
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Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida in Inari
So I have decided to branch out the blog and also include museums and portable antiquities. It feels natural to do so as they are great places to explore the finds and the culture of the people that created the sites that I normally visit and write about. They also deserve to get some free…
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Hallstatt Salt Mines
Last summer I went on a roadtrip in Central Europe, traveling by campervan. When I was traveling through the Austrian alps i realized how close I was to Hallstatt. A place I knew from several documentaries abut the amazing Celtic Broze Age finds made there, so I just had to make a stop. The small…
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Jelling
Jelling is mostly famous for the rune stone with the same name, the Jelling stone. But this place is more than just a stone, it is in some ways the place where the kingdom of Denmark was born. Jelling is located on central Jutland, in Denmark and the site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.…
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Lofotr Viking Museum
At Lofoten in northern Norway lies the farm of Borg. In 1981 the farmer there was ploughing his fields discovered the remains of a settlement. Archeologists were called in from the University of Tromsø. They soon realized that this was no site of only local interest. Between 1986-89 a Nordic research group was formed that…
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The Rock Art at Alta
This summer i visited the UNESCO world heritage site of Hjemmeluft in Alta, Nothern Norway. The wider area of Alta made it on the list in 1985 and the rock carvings or petroglyphs here was by then fairly newly discovered. The first ones were discovered in 1973. There are a total of around 6000 different…
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