Är osäker på bakgrunden, men blir rätt förtvivlad på hur det hela kommuniceras; ständigt denna ingång att säl eller andra högre predatorer på något vis inte riktigt hör hemma i ekosystemen.
10.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stirrup mount from Sanda in Fresta
Photo: Sven Kalmring, CC BY 4.0
Drawing of the stirrup mount from Sanda in Fresta by Franciska Sieurin-Lönnqvist.
A late Viking-period/early-Medieval stirrup mount from Sanda in Fresta parish, north of Stockholm. Found in the early 1990's in a mixed settlement deposit. Now in the collections of Swe History Museum.
samlingar.shm.se/object/326ab...
But what does it depict; an anteater? Beats me...
#FindsFriday
10.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Samma sak på mellersta Gotland - kopiöst med trattisar, men även en del gulingar (hittade några på en oreggad hög/jordmantlat röse som jag var ut och kikade på idag på lunchen)
10.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The fragment (right, 📸: Swedish History Museum) beside a better preserved scabbard from (📸 Örebro County Museum)
It is always good to look at things from new angles.
Yesterday I stumbled upon an ornamented fragment which is depicted in “Birka Studies 2”. When turned correctly it is evidently a piece of a Kazakevièius IIb-scabbard chape.
To my knowledge the first trace of one from Björkö/Birka.
#FindsFriday
03.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Mike Fergusson in his natural habitat!
30.09.2025 17:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bloody 😈!
Went to Wikimaps for a look at where Wiki Commons-photos are geographically positioned at St Karlsö, W off Gotland.
Found two in an awkward position…
THEY WERE MINE, captured & uploaded last year but plotted ~800 m too far to the NNE. Probably caused by GPS-jamming from Königsberg.
27.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A good clarification.
26.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fragment of a burnt Viking-period ornamented bone plate with entwined animals in Mammen-esque style.
An older but nonetheless very nice Norwegian find for #FindsFriday:
An ornamented (and burnt) bone fragment from Reistad in Levanger, Trøndelag. Found 1935 in a burial mound. The pelleted body implies Mammen-style (c. ~1000 CE).
More here: www.unimus.no/portal/#/thi...
(📸: CC BY-SA 4.0)
26.09.2025 07:07 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Fabulous indeed! I get truly worried when I see those empty containers in situ though. I hope there was a REALLY good reason tho why they skipped plaster casting it and excavation in a controlled environment. And that they documented every coin before removal...
26.09.2025 06:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Det var vidrigt, och så fruktansvärt meningslöst. Stora spisen var det bara grus och skärvor kvar av. Bara för att ett gäng avskum inte ville lämna fingeravtryck efter sig.
23.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Med tanke på hur det såg ut efter branden är det dock faktiskt att det kommit tillbaka ur aska och drivor av sönderbränd sten.
22.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oerhört fint däruppe. Hade varit intressant att hälsa på dem när det begav sig, men som med alla hus som ingen bor i längre blir jag alltid lite sorgsen när jag har vägarna förbi.
22.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Besök Kulturarvsdagens arrangemang
Välkommen till Kulturarvsdagens alla arrangemang runt om i Sverige. Vill du resa längre bort finns fler arrangemang på www.europeanheritagedays.com.
För första gången jag varit med och koordinerat har vi i år arrangemang i alla Sveriges landskap.
Ta chansen, förnöj och bilda er i helgen! Mycket bebyggelse, men även massor av annat.
(🇬🇧 : European Heritage Days are on in 🇸🇪 !)
www.raa.se/evenemang-oc...
12.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bor så att jag har bra koll mot ost-sydost från trädgården, har dock lurat iväg sonen ut till kusten med kamera och stativ, det lär bli bra bilder - men det hade han fått här hemma med…
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07.09.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ett annat kulturarv - fick med lite lock och pock rull på den 85-åriga militärcykeln jag köpte för åratal sedan. Trög i starten, därefter svårstoppad!
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07.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wiki Loves Monuments drar igång idag! 🏰📸
Fota svenska minnesmärken och ladda upp till Wikimedia Commons under hela september – var med och dokumentera vårt gemensamma kulturarv och tävla samtidigt om fina priser!
Läs mer: www.wikilovesmonuments.se
#WLMSverige #WLM2025
01.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sweden says Russia behind surge in GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
Interferences to satellite navigational systems occur almost daily, aviation officials say.
This also creates some more low-key problems - e.g. when capturing photos for Wiki Loves Monuments here on Gotland you cannot automatically trust the geotags rendered by your smartphone.
I have had to edit some geotags with several 100s of meters in recent years…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
06.09.2025 06:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Indeed. I will try to get the fragment scanned or something, it’s too small for my phone to focus properly.
02.09.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s a little coin fragment for the numismatists of Bluesky…
Found 2014 at the Viking-period harbour site Paviken on western Gotland, but uninterpreted.
Sorry for the bad photos, I just had a few moments to snap them in a dim-lighted storage today…
Any ideas?
02.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Oh-la-la!
Apparently this heraldic padlock key with striking birds-of-prey was found during the large-scaled, so-called, excavations of burial mounds in Vladimir Oblast, present-day Russia in the 1850's. Published in 1905.
I've only seen them from Sweden & Finland (e.g. Birka, right pic) before...
26.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An interesting piece indeed - that sword reminds a bit of the wolf-beasts on the Lundagård stone (DR 314), though they appears to be equipped with shields as well...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_1_...
22.08.2025 12:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Visby’s annual Medieval Week is upon us yet again - but I stick to “Vikings”…
04.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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