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View of Thorsberg moor 4th-century Germanic tunic found on Thorsberg moor Trousers with attached socks found on Thorsberg moor Two wooden round shields (3rd century AD). The Thorsberg moor (German: Thorsberger Moor, Danish: Thorsberg Mose or Thorsbjerg Mose, South Jutlandic: Tosbarch, Tåsbjerre "Thor's hill") near Süderbrarup in Anglia, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is a peat bog in which the ...
The Thorsberg chape [1] (a bronze piece belonging to a scabbard) is an archeological find from the Thorsberg moor, Germany, that appears to have been deposited as a votive offering. [2] It bears an Elder Futhark runic inscription , one of the earliest known, dating to roughly 200 CE.
Süderbrarup is known for the Thorsberg moor archeological site. Süderbrarup is the seat of the Amt ("collective municipality") Süderbrarup . In March 2018 the former municipalities of Brebel and Dollrottfeld were merged into Süderbrarup.
Of still greater importance are the great deposits at Thorsberg moor (in Angeln) and Nydam, which contained large quantities of arms, ornaments, articles of clothing, agricultural implements, etc., and in Nydam, even ships. By the help of these discoveries, Angle culture in the age preceding the invasion of Britannia can be pieced together.
Similar equipment was discovered at Thorsberg moor in Germany. [74] From such continental evidence, it has been asserted that long bows were common in Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period. Long bow staves were constructed from a single piece of wood, and the string was made of hair or animal gut. [75]
Swedish police found several rifles in the adult education centre in Orebro where a gunman killed 11 people and wounded several others this week in the country's deadliest mass shooting, a ...
This inconspicuous body of water is an important archaeological site and was a Germanic sacrificial bog from the times of the Roman Empire. In the period from the 1st century to the early 5th century objects were sacrificed in several phases in Thorsberg Moor, presumably by members of the West Germanic tribe of the Angles.
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