Hoard find from Strückhausen
The hoard of Strückhausen , in the southern district of Ovelgönne in the Wesermarsch district in Lower Saxony, consists of 28 bronze brooches that are studded with pearled "silver wire". They were found while cutting peat on October 15, 1929. Two pieces of leather, which perhaps served as containers, were about 45 cm away. The crescent-shaped fibulae attached to a woolen cloth date from around AD 400. A pollen analysis showed that the objects were placed in a depression filled with water. The arrangement reveals the cultic purpose of this laying down in the raised bog. In a later investigation it was found that the decorative wires were not made of silver, but of pure tin . A bronze analysis showed a zinc rich bronze of 22% zinc and 78% copper .
Another example is a primer with equal arms from the moor in Oberhausen, Ammerland district . This ornate offering was made around 450 AD.
Bronze jewelry, axes , hatchets or lance tips were deposited in moors as a continuation of older practices, often still in the Iron Age . It must be assumed that there was a ritual-religious motivation. The consecration or offerings to the gods were deliberately divested, because later salvage was not planned.
literature
- Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen: Studies on the imperial source horse find from Bad Pyrmont, de Gruyter 1999, pp. 306–308, ISBN 978-3-11-080050-0
- Mamoun Fansa : Moor as a historical landfill In: State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory (Ed.): Archaeological monuments between the Weser and Ems. Oldenburg Research New Series Volume 13; Isensee, Oldenburg 2000 pp. 167-68