IDNO

LS.79593.

Description

Documentary photograph of wooden vessels found in the Hjortspring boat, a fourth century BC plank-built boat found in Hjortspring Mose on the island of Als in southern Jutland. [JD 12/11/2009]

Place

Europe Scandinavia; Denmark; southern Jutland; Als Island; Hjortspring Mose

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.79589. to LS.79665. were found in the wooden slide box, formerly numbered batch 24, now renumbered C399/.

LS.79589. to LS.79614. were found with a piece of paper which mentions:
"Wood" [manuscript in ink]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "?Europe; Hjortsprive", but the slide is annotated as ‘Hjortspring’ (formerly transcribed as ‘Hjortsprive’), which is southern Jutland, Denmark. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Mappoint, JD 12/11/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Crumlin-Pedersen, Ole & Athena Trakadas (eds) 2003: Hjortspring. A Pre-Roman Iron-Age Warship in Context. Ships and Boats of the North 5. Roskilde, 293 pages. ISBN 8785180521. Published by the Viking Ship Museum and the National Museum of Denmark. An online summary provides the following text:
"The subject of this monograph is a weapon-offering from the fourth century BC found in Hjortspring Mose on the island of Als in southern Jutland and first published in 1937 by its excavator, Gustav Rosenberg. Special attention is paid here to the originally ca 19 m-long plank-built boat, which forms the central element of the find. ...
Other objects in the find include a few fittings and pins of bronze, cords with eyelet holes, the nozzle of a bellows, wooden tools, wooden discs with handles, a turned plate and five finely turned objects: three small wooden containers, a dish and a small cylindrical container. These five objects were all of a high standard of turning craftsmanship and the earliest representatives in Northern Europe of this technique in wood." [Source: http://vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1323&L=1, JD 12/11/2009]