Hoard from Schaprode

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The Schaprode hoard , also known as Schaprode's silver treasure , is a hoard found near Schaprode on Rügen in 2018 . It consists of around 600 pieces of silver , mainly hacked silver , and has a total weight of 1.5 kg. With around 100 silver coins struck by the Danish King Harald Blauzahn from the Viking Age , the hoard is the largest find of this type of coin in the southern Baltic region to date .

discovery

On January 28, 2018 two volunteer studied soil conservationists of the interest group De arable Löper - Association Bodendenkmalpflege island of Ruegen , including a student, the parcel Kirchacker in Schaprode close to a Bronze Age tumulus . The student found a silver coin with his metal detector . In order to salvage the entire find, the notified State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania carried out an archaeological investigation in April 2018 , which covered an area of ​​around 400 m² in the field.

Found objects

The archaeologists of the State Office for Culture and the Preservation of Monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania recovered more than 600 silver objects during their investigation. They are then numbered, included in lists of finds, examined and preserved in the state office. Its conservation status is called good due to the favorable soil conditions with a less acidic soil. The finds are coins, chokers , brooches , pearls and a Thor's hammer . The coins and pieces of jewelry were often crushed ("chopped up") in order to use them as currency.

Among the coins are "Kreuz brakteaten ", a coin with a Christian cross and a weight of 0.3 grams. They were minted in small numbers under the Danish King Harald Blauzahn, who issued them to his followers.

The hoard also includes coins from the English and Oriental regions, which is evidence of the trading activity in the Baltic region at the time. Numismatist Lutz Ilisch dated a reworked Damascus dirham as the oldest coin in the treasure to the year 714 and Otto Adelheid pfennigs as the final coins , which were minted from 983. Based on the coin dating, he assumes that the hoard was buried in the late 980s.

After the discovery of the find, a discussion arose about the whereabouts of the finds. According to the state archaeologist Detlef Jantzen, the silver treasure belongs in a state archaeological museum such as the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state archaeological museum because of its scientific value . According to politicians from the district of Vorpommern-Rügen , the treasure should be exhibited in the region, such as in the Stralsund Museum , where the Hiddense gold jewelry is already on display. In 2019 other possible exhibition locations were discussed, such as the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, the Archaeological Open-Air Museum Groß Raden and the Stralsund Museum of Cultural History .

rating

Archaeologists interpret the hoard find as a typical “hiding place” that was deposited in an area that was then uninhabited. With its location not far from a Bronze Age burial mound, the hoard was on a landmark .

Archaeologists associate the hoard with the Danish King Harald Blue Tooth. It is possible that he was buried in the earth during the king's flight to Pomerania as a result of the lost battle of the Baltic Sea against his son Sven Gabelbart in 986. A similar background is assumed for the Hiddensee gold jewelry, which was discovered in 1872 and 1874 about 5 km away on Neuendorfer Strand on the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee .

According to the State Archeology of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, it is the largest single discovery of blue tooth coins in the southern Baltic region. It is therefore of outstanding importance. So far, there have only been comparable coin finds in the area of ​​the former Danish Empire, such as in Husby and Harndrup .

Honoring the finder

In 2018, the interest group De Ackerlöper - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bodendenkmalpflege Insel Rügen was to be awarded the Friedrich Lisch Monument Prize of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the basis of the find . However, the group rejected the award and justified this with the fact that by focusing on the treasure trove, their voluntary work as a monument conservationist was not sufficiently taken into account. She also criticized media coverage that attributed the find to a student, even though a team of eight people was involved. Instead, Minister of Culture Birgit Hesse donated the 4,000 euro prize for the further training of around 150 honorary monument conservationists in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hobby seeker happiness: How 13-year-old Luca found the sensational Viking treasure stern.de from April 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Treasure of the legendary Viking king discovered on the field at Die Welt on April 16, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c Berthold Seewald: Over 1000 years old - what Harald Blauzahn's treasure reveals in Die Welt on April 16, 2018
  4. ↑ Researchers recover the coin treasure of the legendary king in Lübecker Nachrichten of April 16, 2016
  5. ↑ Martina Rathke: Scramble for the blue tooth treasure in Schweriner Volkszeitung from April 17, 2018
  6. ↑ Karin Erichsen: Which museum will get the blue tooth treasure? at ndr.de on May 22, 2019
  7. ↑ Treasure of the Danish King Blue Tooth discovered on Rügen at focus.de on April 16, 2018
  8. ↑ Monument Prize for Finder of the Blue Tooth Treasure , NDR from August 22, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2018
  9. ↑ "De Ackerlöper" do not accept monument awards. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 7, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Blue tooth treasure: Finders reject price at ndr.de from September 7, 2018
  11. ↑ Monument award for floor conservationists in MV at ndr.de from September 9, 2018

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '23.5 "  N , 13 ° 10' 15.2"  E