The near-2,000-year-old cache included swords and chainmail, and offers a unique window into the Nordic community that lived there.
A team of archaeologists uncovered a trove of weapons, armor, and other goods in Denmark, in advance of a motorway being built on the site.
Based on the way the items were deposited, the archaeological team concluded that the site was not a weapons workshop or a barracks—settings where piles of weapons would not be out of place. The exact count of the metal objects found at the site is as follows: 119 lances and spears, eight swords, five knives, three arrowheads, one axe, one set of chainmail armor, fragments of at least two oath rings and a bugle, a bridle, and some yet-to-be identified objects.
The team also recovered ceramics and flint objects; by their reckoning, the site was occupied for millennia. By the early 400s, the settlement held significant social and economic influence in the area, according to the museums release, allowing it to send out military campaigns to the surrounding area.
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