During the Iron-Age, many lakes, marshes and moors in Southern Scandinavia were used as places of sacrifice for the equipment of defeated armies. The soil has proved very protective, and the over last 150 years a large number of important, archaeological finds have been excavated.
These discoveries help to reveal the important and exciting Iron-Age history of Northern Europe, especially the relationship with the Roman Empire of the South. They include comprehensive collections of Roman weapons, ivory work and other equipment in a good state of preservation, and in numbers greatly exceeding those found within the borders of the Roman Empire.
Copper, iron, silver and gold
Support from The Carlsberg Foundation is helping the Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, to undertake detailed investigations of these archaeological pieces and conditions from a European perspective. The studies include scientific analyses of copper, iron, silver, gold, textiles and wood in order to reveal more about our Iron-Age history.