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    In many areas of Scandinavia, a wide variety of items were deposited in lakes and bogs from the Mesolithic period through to the Middle Ages. Such items...
    35 KB (4,995 words) - 22:43, 26 July 2024
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    offerings from the period of bog deposits in Scandinavia. Almost all Scandinavian Iron Age bog deposits have been found in Denmark and southern Sweden...
    7 KB (880 words) - 15:03, 20 July 2024
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    settlements in Northern Europe & North America and bog iron deposits. Bog iron dominated the iron production of Norse populated areas including Scandinavia and...
    20 KB (2,423 words) - 10:51, 11 May 2024
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    Stone Age and continue throughout the Bronze Age (when weapon deposits in Scandinavia begin), Iron Age and into the Viking Age. Throughout this long...
    35 KB (4,297 words) - 13:59, 12 August 2024
  • This is a list of bog bodies in order of country in which they were first discovered. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of...
    85 KB (3,177 words) - 18:42, 17 August 2024
  • Atlantic Bronze Age. Wetland deposits in Scandinavia Irish gold Wallace, J. N. A. (12 September 1936). "The golden bog of Cullen, Co. Tipperary, being...
    6 KB (482 words) - 10:24, 17 August 2024
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    Nerthus (section Bog bodies)
    [1965]. The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved. New York Review Books. ISBN 9781590170908 Gunnell, Terry. 1995. The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia. D.S. Brewer...
    36 KB (4,382 words) - 15:55, 29 May 2024
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    of bronze, dates to the Bronze Age and was often found in pairs, deposited in bogs, mainly in Denmark and Germany. It consists of a mouthpiece and several...
    5 KB (525 words) - 21:54, 16 June 2024
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    equipment. Beginning in the 5th century, the nature of the wetland deposits changed; in Scandinavia, fibulae and bracteates were placed in or beside wetlands...
    104 KB (13,192 words) - 18:25, 18 August 2024
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    Nordic Bronze Age (category Prehistoric Scandinavia)
    located in North Western Germany. The metallurgical influences from Central Europe are especially noticeable. The Bronze Age in Scandinavia can be said...
    93 KB (9,739 words) - 06:24, 19 August 2024
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    Europe, and rich sacrificial deposits, including objects, animals, and human remains, have been discovered in springs, bogs, and under the foundations of...
    128 KB (15,973 words) - 18:28, 2 July 2024
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    horse pulling a wagon upon which sits a model of the sun and was found in a bog in Denmark. Hengist and Horsa, often translated as "Stallion" and "Horse"...
    38 KB (5,124 words) - 07:13, 23 January 2024
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    Luttra Woman (category Bog bodies)
    hair and eye colour. List of bog bodies Nordic Stone Age – Time period in Scandinavia Prehistoric Sweden – Time period in present-day Sweden before recorded...
    34 KB (3,450 words) - 18:11, 23 August 2024
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    dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates...
    15 KB (1,802 words) - 02:05, 25 August 2024
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    Human sacrifice (redirect from Bog murders)
    bog bodies have been interpreted as kings who were ritually killed, presumably after serious crop failures or other disasters. Some were deposited in...
    138 KB (15,280 words) - 22:09, 25 August 2024
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    mainly used in hunting and fishing, but they may also have been used as weapons. Well-preserved examples of arrows with microliths in Scandinavia have been...
    36 KB (4,477 words) - 16:37, 24 August 2024
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    Veksø Helmets (category Archaeological discoveries in Denmark)
    found near Veksø in Zealand, Denmark. In 1942 a workman was digging (c. 0.7m below the moss surface) at a peat bog extraction site in Brøns Mose, Viksø...
    11 KB (1,174 words) - 09:44, 6 March 2024
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    Illerup Ådal (category Iron Age Scandinavia)
    bog http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/07/an-entire-army-scarificed-in-a-bog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/alken-enge-danish-bog-remains_n_1776654...
    5 KB (585 words) - 08:09, 19 July 2024
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    spathae in a native Germanic context (as opposed to Roman military camps in Germania) is the deposit of sixty-seven Roman swords in the Vimose bog (3rd century)...
    18 KB (2,234 words) - 00:09, 1 July 2024
  • mountain heath, montane forests, tundra, taiga, beech forests, rivers, lakes, bogs, brackish, marine coasts, and cultivated land. The climate of Sweden is mild...
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