Havor hoard

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Copy of the Havorring

The Havor hoard consists of an unused situla , Roman utensils, a pair of bronze bells and a golden Celtic torc (neck ring). The Havor find occupies a prominent place among the Nordic ones.

His laying down should have taken place around AD 100. The excavator Erik Nylén interpreted the hoard as a hidden temple treasure . He found him in 1961 while investigating the castle of Stora Havor (a district of Hablingbo ) on Gotland in Sweden . In a recess on the castle wall, covered by a stone, stood the situla (bucket) from the early Roman Empire, filled with the utensils from the find .

The well-preserved vessel, presumably created by Capuan bronze casters, is 33 cm high. The turned-out collar edge of the retracted mouth area is decorated with a stylized tendril. The thin, bent up handle has ends in the shape of animal heads. It is attached to cast attachments that are shaped as the faces of young men over a collar-shaped palmette .

A wine ladle with a sieve and narrow long handles are primarily associated with the food culture . The strainer handle is stamped with the manufacturer's name CANNIMASVIT. Three bronze trowels tinned on the inside with rounded, perforated end plates, one of which bears the stamp CIPIVS POLYBIVS, as well as two bronze bells with bows and bobbins .

The most notable item is a golden torc, 24 cm in diameter. The bracket, made from twisted gold wires, has a hollow, smooth gold ball about five centimeters in diameter at each end. The conical spout between the balls and the ring is decorated with images of animals. On each of the cones there are three bull heads with large arched horns. The ring size, however, is more suitable for a statue of a god than a human neck. The possible place of manufacture and the dating of the piece of jewelery, which only exists as a copy, is uncertain as the original was stolen from the Visby Museum in 1986.

The end balls resemble those of torques worn by the deities on the Gundestrup cauldron , but they differ in shape and decoration. Rather, the excavator discussed analogies with three neck rings from the Ukraine , two of which were found in the Kiev area and one on the Black Sea coast in Olbia . This is the region for which a lively trade exchange with the Nordic cultures is assumed in the early Roman Empire. The Ukrainian pieces do not exactly resemble the Havor ring in terms of shape and decoration, but they seem to be closely related to it. The Nordic goldsmith's trade could have been stimulated in this region by exchanges with the northern colonies of the Greeks and the later provinces of the Roman Empire .

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  • Erik Nylén , Ulla Lund Hansen, Peter Manneke: Havor Hoard. The Gold, the Bronzes, the Fort (= Kungliga Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Handlingar. Antikvariska Series. 46). Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies, Stockholm 2005, ISBN 91-7402-345-4 .

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