Metal-detected Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Brooches from the Limfjord Region, Northern Jutland: Production, Use and Loss.
Torben Trier Christiansen
Based on the study of 1,859 metal-detected brooches recovered at different sites in Limfjord region, this paper discusses patterns production, distribution, use, and deposition brooches. Widespread indications non-ferrous metalwork a modest number models for brooch production suggest that were produced many settlements region during period studied (AD 400–1150), traces technical change varying distribution finished temporally as well spatially differing modes production. Furthermore, analyses suggests most intact when they entered soil, seemingly random likely reflect fact many, perhaps most, simply accidentally dropped. However, over above, interpretational difficulties are consequent recovery all metal-detector finds plough layer detached from their original context. The interpretation is also markedly challenged by brooches, along with other metal artefacts, appear to having been secondarily deposited fields surrounding settlements, probably manuring fields.
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