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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 ...
Two round, wooden shields from Thorsberg moor; dating to the 3rd century CE, they are similar to the shields used by the Anglo-Saxons. Old English poetry always states that shields were made of lime (linden-wood), but few actual examples have been found by archaeologists.
Two wooden round shields survived at Thorsberg moor (3rd century AD) Examples of Germanic wooden shields circa 350 BC – 500 AD survive from weapons sacrifices in Danish bogs. The heavily armored Roman legionaries carried large shields ( scuta ) that could provide far more protection, but made swift movement a little more difficult.
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.
Two round, wooden shields from Thorsberg moor; dating to the 3rd century CE, they are similar to the shields used by the Anglo-Saxons. At this time Wessex was defended by the fyrd, a force made up of the lords and commoners of the realm and raised on an ad hoc basis. It took time to assemble a fighting force, and this system was intended to ...
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.
Thorsberg moor in Anglia, Schleswig-Holstein, modern Germany, was the site of depositions for four centuries. 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 include earthenware, decorative metalwork, weapons, and human corpses, known as bog ...
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.