Five hoards in eighty years. Landscape perspectives on new Bronze Age hoard finds around Lake Mälaren in Sweden
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Martin Rundkvist
Abstract
Since 1941, only five Bronze Age hoards have been found in the four provinces around Sweden’s Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren: three in Uppland, two in Södermanland, none in Västmanland or Närke. The most recent one appeared in 2016. Here each hoard is discussed in terms of its date, the regional affiliation of its contents, and its landscape situation. They all date from Per. V–VI, c. 950–520 cal BC, and are entirely dominated by locally made objects. Two sites are apparently peripheral in relation to period settlement and to other deposition sites, while two are in an area of dense settlement and were found during the same military metal detector campaign. The steep drop in new hoard finds after World War II is discussed, and Sweden’s restrictive metal detector legislation is identified as the main reason that only five hoards have come to light in the area over the past eighty years.
Zusammenfassung
Seit 1941 wurden in den vier Provinzen rund um die Seen Mälaren und Hjälmaren in Schweden nur fünf Horte aus der Bronzezeit gefunden: drei in Uppland, zwei in Södermanland, keiner in Västmanland oder Närke. Der neueste kam 2016 zu Tage. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird jeder Hort im Hinblick auf seine Datierung, die regionale Zugehörigkeit seines Inhalts und seine landschaftliche Situation besprochen. Die Horte datieren alle von Per. V–VI, einem Zeitraum um 950–520 v. Chr. Alle Horte sind vollständig von lokal hergestellten Objekten dominiert. Zwei Standorte liegen im Verhältnis zur damaligen Besiedlung und zu anderen Ablagerungsstätten offenbar am Rande, während sich zwei in einem Gebiet mit dichter Besiedlung befinden und während derselben militärischen Metalldetektorkampagne gefunden wurden. Der starke Rückgang neuer Hortfunde nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wird diskutiert, und die restriktive Metalldetektorgesetzgebung Schwedens als Hauptgrund benannt, dass in der Gegend in den letzten achtzig Jahren nur fünf Horte ans Licht kamen.
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- Verifying the chronology of Ukrainian Neolithic
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