Dagger. It has a triangular hilt plate, the blade has a marked center rib, and there are some notches along the sides. The blade is corroded. Length: 26.3 cm. B5952/a.
Small razor with horse head-shaped handle. The blade is curved, the end is broken. The handle is long, slender and curved, and ends in a horse’s head. There is no other decoration. Length: c. 7 cm. B5952/b.
Complete fibula with disc-shaped head and spiral ends. There is weak decoration on the hoop: slanted, twisted lines. The fibula is heavily corroded. Length: 9.7 cm. B5952/c.
Double button, consisting of two disks connected by a short rod. The upper plate is domed and decorated: a star in the center, surrounded by parallel lines. Part of the disc is damaged. The double button is corroded. Width: 2.7 cm. B5952/d.
Decorated tweezers. The bow is broken. There is a thin line and two rows of triangles running from the bow to the mouth of the tweezers. The decoration is weak due to wear and corrosion. Length: 9.3 cm. B5952/e.
Context:
Found in a mound, «Kubbhaug», excavated by Shetelig and Brøgger in 1905. The mound was 17 x 2.7 m and was built of earth, with a layer of round stones at the bottom. The remains of a disturbed curb could be seen near the edge of the mound. An inner coffin was found NW of the centre, it measured 3.5 x 2.7 m, height 0.85 m. The coffin covered a brick chamber, 1.8 x 0.6 m, 0.4 m deep. The bottom was covered with small stones and bark. A cranium was found at the northern end of the coffin, other bones were found in the middle.
Date:
The collection can be dated to the Early Bronze Age period 3.
Context:
Found in a mound, «Kjørkhaug», in 1896 or earlier. It was found in the western part of the mound, there is no other information about the find. The mound was later excavated by Shetelig and A.W. Brøgger in 1905. They opened a trench to the middle of the mound, and found seven small cairns, without finds or burials. Flint chips and a flint blade were found in the excavated masses, as well as charcoal.
Context:
Found in a mound excavated by Gustafson. A stone coffin was found in the middle of the mound, about 70-90 cm below the top. The coffin was built of stone and measured 2.5 x 0.45-0.50 cm and was filled with soil. The dagger was found in the middle of the coffin, about 30 cm from the northern end. One of the top slabs had a bowl pit below, i.e. facing the inside of the last.
Fibula with round head and loop with spiral end. Both spirals are broken, one is preserved. The fibula is heavily corroded. Length: c.9.9 cm. B5000/a.
Dagger with button, fragments of bone, wooden sheath and bark. The blade is green and corroded, with straight, parallel sides and a marked midrib. The tip is broken. The blade expands towards the hilt, which has a tongue-shaped shank plate with three rivet holes. There is a rivet in the top rivet hole. Length: 25.5 cm. The handle button is round/oval with a central round pin surrounded by a border of vertical, parallel lines and six spirals. The mouth is partially damaged. Width: c. 4 cm Fragments of a bone shaft are preserved. According to the report, the party ended in a crescent shape; there were two (false?) rivets in addition to the three rivets corresponding to the holes in the shaft plate, and the remains of a loop near the handle knob. Fragments of a wooden scabbard, found under the dagger. One of the fragments has a hole and a bronze nail still embedded. The longest wood fragments are approx. 11.5 cm; there is corroded bronze on one fragment. Pieces of bark were found under the dagger and sheath. A sample of charcoal and cremated bones has been preserved. B5000/b.
Shard of an urn, hardened with ground quartz or coarse sand. The shards have a reddish surface inside and out. Some shards have been glued together. The shards are for a pot with a convex body and concave rim. There is no decoration. The surface is uneven. The original height was probably approx. 20-25 cm and the diameter approx. 15-20 cm. B5000/c.
Location:
Holen, Time, Rogaland
Context:
Found in a burial mound excavated by Gustafson. The mound was 16 m across and had a height of approx. 1.5 m. A stone coffin made of slabs, approx. 2.15 m long and 45-50 cm wide, 80 cm deep, was found southeast of the center. It was empty down to a depth of 30 cm; it was filled with earth, small stones and gravel. At a depth of 35 cm, the fibula and dagger as well as the outline of unburnt bones were found. The bronze was found in the northern part of the coffin. At the bottom of the coffin, fragments of an urn were found in one place. Pieces of cremated bones and charcoal were found in the fill in several places in the mound.
Date:
The fibula is dated to Early Bronze Age Early Period 2, the dagger is Period 2. It is difficult to give the urn an exact date, presumably Period 2, although it may be a later addition.
Blade of a dagger and fragments of a wooden shaft. The sides are chipped and damaged, the tip is broken. It is a flat tang with rivet holes and possibly flanges, so the dagger may have been flanged. The blade has a marked midrib. There are remnants of a green patina, the blade is corroded. According to the original catalogue, the wooden hilt was semicircular, probably similar to Montelius Minnen fig. 1006. Length: c.25 cm
Location:
Hodnes, Bore, Klepp, Rogaland
Context:
Found in a mound at Hodnes, no information about the grave.
Fragment of double-edged blade, most likely a dagger. It has a marked midrib flanked by two line bundles consisting of three lines. The lines are not well made. The line bundles are concave at the widest end of the fragment, near the missing handle, indicating that this may have been a riveted blade. Length: c. 9.5 cm
Location:
Hogstad (unknown farm), Rogaland
Context:
No information is available. The name Hogstad is written on the blade, but as the object was acquired from an antiques dealer, there is no certain information about where, when or how it was found.
Decorated pommel, probably belonging to B906. The pommel is rhombic, with a round socket. The socket is damaged and there is some damage underneath the top. The remains of a rivet are found inside the socket. There is an oval boss at the top, decorated with striated triangles and surrounded by eight concentric rings. There are dots, a line, and more dots between the edge and the rings. The socket is also decorated: eight horizontal parallel lines, followed by a border of vertical parallel lines, three horizontal lines, criss-crossing lines, and finally horizontal lines, with a possible border of vertical lines. Golden, red, and brown; there is some corrosion. Width: 4.5 x 4 cm
Context: Found in a mound at Sola in 1834, together with a razor, two daggers and a fibula (B00449, B00906, B00907, and B00908). No other information. This cannot be confirmed, as the original catalogue mentions that the finds may have come from several mounds.
Context:
Found in a mound at Sola in 1834, together with B449, B906, B908 and B909. No other information. This cannot be confirmed, as the original catalog mentions that the finds may have come from several mounds.
Context:
Found in a mound at Sola in 1834, reportedly together with B449, B907-B909 (fibula, razor, pommel and riveted blade). No other information. This cannot be confirmed, as the original catalog mentions that the finds may have come from several mounds.
A small riveted dagger, with two rivet holes, and the remains of an organic hilt. The blade is uneven and has been resharpened considerably in prehistory. There is no midrib or decoration. There are some notches along the blade and the point is slightly bent. Part of the hilt is preserved: a small horn shaped into a handle. According to the original catalogue, it is a goat’s horn. It is black and fragmented, partly damaged by the spade when it was found. A small cylindrical piece of what looks like bone or horn was also handed in by the finder, who seemed to think that it could have been a rivet. It measures 0.4 cm and is certainly small enough that it could have been used as a rivet. Brown patina with some golden patches. Length: 8.5 cm, the remains of the hilt c. 6.5 cm. Width: 1.5 cm (widest section of the blade)
Context: Found in a bog while digging a ditch, about 1.2 m deep, close to the doctor’s house. The bog was surrounded by rock outcrops.
Dagger blade with two rivet holes. There is some damage to the edges of the blade, otherwise it is well preserved. Green patina, there are some scratches where someone has tried to polish the blade. There is a central rib on both sides of the blade. The dagger was previously kept at the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger with number SM 2849. Length: 12.5 cm. Width: 2.8 cm
Context: Possibly from a mound, «Garahaugen»; it was reported to have been found in a chamber containing charcoal. The excavation of Garahaugen revealed a central mound on an earthen platform, covered by a mound and surrounded by a foot chain, and a central chamber made of boulders, measuring 0.75×0.35 m. The chamber had been disturbed by grave robbers, and contained charcoal and cleaned cremated leg. The charcoal was radiocarbon dated to 3300±80BP/1460-1300 cal BC (T 858), placing the burial in Period 2-3. There was also another burial consisting of charcoal and cremated bones between some stone slabs; the charcoal was dated to 3030±70BP/1150-1010 cal BC (T 959). Several plow tracks and a cooking pit were found under the earthen platform, and charcoal from an area near the pit was dated to 3080±20 BP/1210-1010 cal BC (T 860). Although this cannot be established, it is possible that the dagger actually came from Garahaugen. It also cannot be ruled out that it came from another pile or heap nearby.
Context:
Found in a mound, «Nesjarøysi», located on a small gravel hill about 40 m from land and close to a small river, 10 m.a.s.l. It was originally 15 m and had a height of approx. 1.8-2 m. According to Olafsen (1907), it had a kerb. During the removal of the pile, a large chest made of stone slabs was found and removed. It was c. 2 m long, and consisted of a slab at the gable ends, one on one side, and two slabs on the other. The bottom consisted of beach rock. After the slabs were removed, the blade of a dagger was found. The cairn was built on the beach, which beach stones under the entire cairn indicate. The mound was removed by the farmer in 1930, and shortly afterwards was inspected by archaeologist Johs Bøe.
B05932/a: Fragments of a bronze object. The excavator, Haakon Shetelig, thought the fragments could have been a knife. As the fragments are flat and thin, it is possible that the object may have been a knife or razor, but this cannot be ascertained. The fragments are corroded.
B05932/b: Clay urn, fragmented, similar to Baudou’s type XXXVIII C 1. The fragments have been glued together. The ware is grey/brown, porous on the outside, and tempered with crushed quartz. There are remains of red on the outside. The urn has a wide, convex body and cylindrical neck. The body is decorated with a band of slanting parallel lines in groups, alternating between slanting to the right and left. There are two horizontal lines on top and below the band. The rim is not marked. The pot originally had a handle, which was broken before deposition, as a handle was not found in the grave. Height: 18 cm
B05932/c: Fragments of an urn. When found, the clay was damp and disintegrating. Grey ware, with remains of red on the outside. The clay is tempered with crushed quartz. The ware appears to have been somewhat better quality than B05932/b, with an even finish both on the inside and outside. Only part of the lower half of the pot can be reconstructed: it has a convex lower body, and narrows towards the neck. A possible parallel is Baudou XXVIII B 2.
B05932/d: Cremated bones.
Context:
Found in a cairn with two urns and cremated bones (B05932/b-d), located on a promontory, Straumstein, with a good view of the sea. The cairn contained three chambers: One inhumation grave and two smaller stone cists, one of which contained the two urns and cremated bones, and one which was empty. The cist was made from five slabs and two covering slabs, and measured 0.40 x 0.30 m. It was located in the centre of the cairn, a little higher than the other two burials. Marine sand was scattered on the bottom slab. One of the urns had disintegrated and the shards were mixed with the bones inside. The bronze fragments were found underneath. The other urn was in good condition, but had cracked and the contents spilt. The bronze object appears to have been deposed separately, rather than inside one of the urns. According to Per Fett (1954), the slabs must have come from Augastad.
Location:
Eide (gnr.83/3), Kvam, Hordaland
Date: Based on the urns and cremated bones as well as the size of the cist, the burial is dated to the Late Bronze Age, period 4-6.
Context: Found in a cairn north of the island of Huglo on the farm Nordhuglo in 1885. The cairn was built on and around a natural rock and was 18-19 m in diameter and about 2 m high. A cist in the mound measured L 2.0 m W 0.4 m D 0.75 m. The cist was built in a natural pit in the rock and covered with two slabs. The dagger and a jaw bone were found inside, and the dagger was placed on the left side of where the body had lain. The jaw is lost and the coffin was destroyed in 1959. The cairn was not excavated by an archaeologist.
Date:
The dagger is similar to daggers dated to the Early Bronze Age, period 2.
