Harness depot from Stormsdorf
The harness depot in Stormsdorf , a district of Eixen in the Vorpommern-Rügen district , was found in five stages.
- In 1974 children found plate-shaped bronze plates and a ring with attached discs in a field. By chance the find fell into the hands of specialists.
- In 1975 the comparable harness depot from Ückeritz on Usedom was discovered (110 bronze objects, including attachments, tin sleeves, 13 rattling plates, toggles, buttons, needles, rings, 54 jewelry discs and bridle bars). In the following years a curator found more ornamental discs, after which the Stormsdorf site was considered exhausted.
- In 1990 two jewelery plates were handed over to the Bad Sülze Museum , which clearly belong to the Stormsdorf depot. It cannot be ruled out that pieces from Stormsdorf are still in private hands.
- In 2007, employees of the state office visited the site and found 21 individual finds.
- In 2008 the scattering of finds was examined more closely and 300 m² of arable land was covered. The landfill was destroyed by tillage, the finds were scattered over about 20 m and their original position was not recognizable. In addition to the parts discovered in 2007 (e.g. parts of snaffles, spherical bronze beads and rattle plates ), there were 33 more.
The metal sheets with a ring, reminiscent of large earrings, were found again. Originally, they were attached to the bridle in pairs as ringing jewelry. The discovery of more bits of snaffle was significant. The broken toggle bars could be put together completely in three copies. It is assumed that there are at least two harnesses as the toggles were attached to the bridle in pairs.
The toggle bars find their closest parallels in the "Grandson Corcelettes" type in the western Alpine region. They represent imports that were manufactured at a distance of more than 1000 km from the site. Their shape and time (around 700/750 BC) are associated with the influences of the steppe peoples in research. From the east, at the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, cultural impulses reached Western and Northern Europe.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 10.3 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 11.5" E