Treasure of gold from Tuna
The Tuna gold treasure was found in 1952 while building a house in Tuna municipality in Badelunda outside Västerås in Västmanland . It is the richest gold find from a Swedish woman's grave.
The grave, like some others, dates from the Germanic Iron Age (around 300 AD), but was located in a long-occupied field with around 90 other graves, some of which were from the Vendel - (550-800 AD). and the subsequent Viking Age. On the moraine hill, oriented north-south, a three-meter-long pit with a depth of just over a meter had been dug. Brushwood was spread out on the floor and a box about 0.5 m high stood on it. The box was covered with planks. The dead woman lay on a pad made of fur or fabric. The grave was marked on the surface by a stone packing 20 m in diameter.
The gold items consist of:
- a simple, closed finger ring
- a spiral finger ring
- two simple decorative needles
- a spiral neck ring decorated with a stamp
- two such arm rings.
The gold rings from Tuna have stylized animal heads at their ends. Most of them are shaped into narrow, button-shaped protrusions. The heads on the spiral finger ring are true to life. The tomb also contained
- Parts of a glass mug
- Fragments of one or two other glass vessels
- two pearls
- two provincial Roman silver spoons
- a provincial Roman bronze bowl
- Pieces of two Hemmoort- type bronze buckets .
Vessels of the Hemmoort type, some of which are provided with picture friezes on the edge of the mouth, are not uncommon in Scandinavia. Several come from Norway. Over 30 were found in Denmark. Parts of such buckets were found in fire graves on Gotland and Öland . The glass beaker by Tuna is, like the specimens by Östra Varv and Soukainen, made of colorless glass, decorated in a wave pattern with blue and milk-white melted glass threads. Parts of similar cups lay between burned bones in a grave near Gödåker. In the rest of Sweden, however, the type is unknown. About ten cups come from rich graves on Zealand . Others come from the lower Vistula and central Poland , but they are completely unknown in Western Europe . They must have been made in the same place.
literature
- Mårten Stenberger: Roman Empire . In: Ders .: Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , pp. 257-303.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the basis of the prevalence pattern, Hans Jürgen Eggers concluded that the glasses were made in an oriental glassworks, s. on this: Mårten Stenberger 1977, p. 284.