Rare Viking Age Shield Found at Trelleborg

Pic: M. Pedersen, Sydvestsjællands Museum.
Lifted from: kongensborge.dkSorry about the fall-out, I’m back with quite wonderful news: Danish archaeologists from the ‘Kongens Borge’ project have unearthed a well preserved Viking Age wooden shield!

The shield was found during test pitting around the late 10th century ring fortress Trelleborg in West Zealand. It has now been brought to Moesgård Museum in Jutland for further analysis and conservation.

Although all kinds of weapons and war related equipment has been found in Viking Age burials all over Scandinavia, shields or even fragments of such are extremely rare.

To my knowledge this is the first ever Viking Age shield to be recovered by archaeologists in Denmark, probably only paralelled by one similar shield previously found in Norway.

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Read about it at the King’s Foretresses project website.