Category: Hilt

Razor, hilt, urn, lid B5003/a-d

B5003/c og e
B5003/d

Razor knife with asymmetric wide blade, handle broken and missing. The end is straight and has been damaged. The blade is golden brown and there are marks along the back and edge that correspond to the bronze shroud found in the burial. Similar to Baudou’s type XI B 1a. Length: 6.4 cm. B5003/a.

Thin bronze plate, razor-shaped, the ends folded on three sides. The folds correspond to marks on the planer, which indicates that this is a sheath/case for the planer. Length: c.7.5 cm. B5003/b.

Incomplete clay flat urn. Brown ware, no decoration apart from two holes on one side (face). The urn has been reconstructed from ceramic shards found in the grave. Double conical body and flat bottom. Width: 14.5 cm (bottom), 20 cm (top) Height: c. 18 cm. B5003/c.

Incomplete clay urn. Brown goods, no decoration. The urn has been reconstructed from ceramic shards found in the grave. Double conical body and flat bottom. Width: 15.5 cm (bottom), 18 cm (top) Height: c. 11 cm. B5003/d.

There is also a lid. The lid is round and reconstructed from fragments in the grave. It is not clear which urn it originally belonged to. Width: c. 11 cm. B5003/e.

In addition, there is a box marked B5003, which contains sherds from at least two pots plus a piece of gray flint. Photo: Svein Skare © University Museum in Bergen, CC BY-SA 4.0

Location:
Bø, Hå, Rogaland

Context:
Found in a mound, «Dyrhaug», excavated by Gustafson in 1892-93. The mound was 22 m across and had a height of about 3.5 m. There was an inner cairn, 11-12 m x 2.5 m, covered with soil and a layer of stone. A large coffin was found in the center of the mound, containing some fragments of a skull and some teeth, probably an Early Bronze Age burial. The side of the ditch collapsed the following year, revealing a small coffin, 45 x 35 cm, 35 cm deep, built of boulders, about 3 m east of the central pit and higher up in the mound, about 1 m below the top. It contained B5003a-d and cremated bones. A stone coffin containing bones is said to have been found near the edge of the mound a few years earlier.

Date:
The razor is dated to the Younger Bronze Age period 4-5. The urns are dated to period 5.

Fibula, dagger with bone handle and wood hilt, bone og urn B5000/a-c

Photo: Svein Skare © Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Dagger and hilt B6082

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.

Location:
Eggesbøen (gnr, 38/1), Herøy, Møre & Romsdal

Date:
Older bronce Age Periode 2-3.