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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 1d

When the assumed 20 cm of colluvium (?) turned out to be 75 cm! To understand the #environmental changes at the #sacredwell in Matzanni, #Sardinia, we dug test pits 🏺– this one was deep! #archaeology #Bronzeage #ironage #moesgaard #augustinusfoundation

The test pit outside the archaeological area from Matzanni is excavated.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 6d

And that really scared me! It is not often I scream like a girl.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 7d

On #FindsFriday I present a question! This #metallography of a late iron age #slag has an inclusion I cannot identify! The slag contains fayalite and wustite indicating iron #smelting, but what is this layering around the cavity?
#archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺

Metallography of an iron age slag showing the matrix with fayalite and wustite and several cavities. Around a large irregular cavity a unknown layered structure is visible.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 9d

#fieldwork season on #Sardinia has started! This time in focus #environmental changes on a local scale. That means test pits in clay on bedrock. Yeah, who says #archaeology is boring? 🏺

Heide is working hard with a pick axe to dig a hole in the clay.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 15d

Modern challenges in copying #ancient #craft techniques. At #FindsFriday the bead made by Murano glas is an attempt to copy the technique, quality and design of the 2000 year old #Millefiori glas fragments from #roman Murina bowls. #tübingenmuseum #archaeology #ironage #romans

Millefiori glas fragment from a Murrina bowl dating to the 1st century BC to 1st century AC displayed in the archaeological Museum Tübingen.

A round bead made by Murano glas trying to copy the technique and quality of the 2000 year old Murrina glas bowls - it is still far away from the quality of the original.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 15d

I just gave my lecture on #craft traces and #workshop organisation in #Bronzeage at the 6th NAHM workshop. It's amazing to present this to such a qualified audience. Seeing a #goldsmith nod when you present the #technological traces on the #bronze work is a very good feeling. #archaeology 🏺

Heide in the lecture hall at Hohentübingen castle presenting a talk on Bronze Age craft traces.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 16d

Tracespotting! What do traces of prehistoric #metalworking look like, where can we find them, and what can they tell us about ancient #craftsmanship? 🏺

This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 19d

Totally focused on a weekend? Yes, it's playtime in the #smithy, and I need to produce some #videos showing the different types of #blacksmithing residue from an archaeological perspective. There are hardly any. #archaeology #ironage #metallurgy #hammerscale

The iron is hot on the ambolt and the hammer is on its way to form the iron. The effect will be a deformation of the iron rod and small iron flakes that fly away so called hammer scale.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 26d

#StandingStoneSunday a tour through the Nature National Park #MolsBjerge, Jutland, Denmark. The Porskær #Megalith has a roofstone that was splittet in the middle and is one of the largest constructions in DK with in all 35 stones. 🏺 #stoneage #archaeology #bronzeage

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 29d

Have a look at the article, we are happy the first results are published now...https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328268

Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 29d

Bronze figurines from Sardinia carry the isotopic fingerprints of Mediterranean trade 3,000 years ago—linking horned-helmeted warriors to networks stretching to Iberia and perhaps Scandinavia. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Nuragic #Anthropology

Horns Across the Sea: Bronze Figurines and the Metal Highways of the First Millennium BCE

Sardinian bronzetti reveal a far-reaching trade network that linked the Mediterranean to northern Europe

www.anthropology.net

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely great results to the extend of mobility in #Bronzeage.

Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 29d

Isotope clues from Seddin’s monumental burial mounds show Late Bronze Age elites were long-distance travelers linking Scandinavia, Central Europe & Italy. #BronzeAge #Archaeology #HumanMobility #Anthropology

Bronze Age Elites on the Move: The Foreign Dead of Seddin

Strontium signatures from German burial mounds point to long-distance mobility and elite networks between Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Italy.

www.anthropology.net

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Sep 11

In our Augustinus fundet project #MetalsandGiants, we published first results 🧪 in @plosone.org The #article describes a multi-proxy method that allows distinguishing between Sardinian, Iberian, and Levantine copper using osmium isotopes. We aim to understand metal trade in #bronzeage #Sardinia.
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Multiproxy analysis unwraps origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines: On the trail of metal-driven interaction and mixing practices in the early first millennium BCE

This article presents a multiproxy investigation of metal samples obtained from 48 Nuragic figurines (so-called bronzetti) and three copper bun ingots. These objects originate from three prominent Sar...

journals.plos.org

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Sep 5

Extreme nerding! The #ARCMET #EAA community on #archaeometallurgy 🧪 is trying something new this time at the #EAA2025. We met to join our session #146 multi-disciplinarian metalwork as a group. Our #AarhusUni Hub hopefully shows that online conferences can be social too. 🏺#Bronzeage

The meeting room of the Aarhus Hub is already full in the session, the latest presentation is on the screen and food is on the table.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great new book on #Bronzeage water deposits....I am looking forward to get my hands on it.

Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · Sep 4

Archaeoethnologica: Water Depots in Bronze Age Rhein / Depósitos Aquáticos da Idade do Bronze no Reno

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/depo...

#Archaeology #Protohistory #BronzeAge #Hoards #water #waterdepots #CentralEurope #materialculture #weapons #ritual #books #openaccess

Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 31

It is amazing how clear the differences are, right. And, yes, I am examining ancient metal objects and reconstruct their crafting techniques to tell more about the people who made them. Have a look at my Phd, free to download
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Archaeopress

Archaeopress Publications

www.archaeopress.com

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 30

In the picture above you see:
The row of triangles looks more like a wavy line.
Some parts of the pattern are missing.
Everything seems more rounded, and the spiral grooves are uniform.
Do you see what I mean?

Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 30

The picture below shows the same pattern as on the disc from last week. To the untrained eye, it actually looks like the same picture.
Take the time to go back two posts and take a look.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 30

Late #FindsFriday. Last week, I showed you an experimental #bronze disc, made using bronze #tools on a bronze plate. This week, I show you the other part of the experiment: a #cast bronze disc with a decoration that was inserted into the model and cast as such. #archaeology 🧪🏺

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 26

Falls Interesse besteht die Pionierinnen der dänischen (skandinavischen) Archäologie näher kennen zu lernen so kann ich das Projekt @kvinark.bsky.social empfehlen.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 26

Warum so überrascht? Deine Zeichnungen sind klasse und verdienen es gross rauszukommen. Weiter so @jensnotroff.com

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Aug 26

Puh, ich glaube *so* groß hab' ich bisher keine meiner Zeichnungen irgendwo gesehen. 😲😉

Die @aktarcha.bsky.social-Wanderausstellung gibt's noch bis Ende nächster Woche im Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen zu sehen - weitere Hintergründe zum Projekt auch hier:

www.unibw.de/geschichte/p...

Selfie vor großem Werbebanner zur Sonderausstellung über "Archäologinnen im 18.-21. Jahrhundert". Links ein gezeichnetes Portrait Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausens.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 22

For #FindsFriday a real treasure. This close-up shows a typical #BronzeAge #spiral design punched with bronze #tools in bronze. It was an experiment carried out in the 1870's by famous #Danish archaeologists. This treasure trove of #knowledge was buried in a storage room until I discovered it! 🧪

A bronze plate decorated with an inserted pattern of spirals, triangles and lines. The decoration is inserted using a bronze chisel in a bronze sheet. The individual tool marks are visible at highlighted with black arrows.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 8

#FindsFriday on my knees! The beauty in the corner is the late #Bronzeage #amphora from Herzberg. A thin metal sheet #vessel with hump decoration. Looking forward to detect the #craft traces.
#archaeology #Ironage #Moesgaardmuseum #LandesmuseumBrandenburg

A person on the right site of the picture is fotographing a bronze metal vessel (left site of picture) on a table under a window.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 4

There are saidly not so many. It was first a few hundred years after the end of the #Bronzeage within the pre-roman #Ironage it became more common to 'offer' people in the bog. However a good start for your journey might be the archaological museum in Vejle, Denmark, here you can get an overview.

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · Aug 4

Fantastic, a new #bronze armor find! #Bronzeage

Archaeology News Online Magazine @archaeologynews.bsky.social · Aug 4

Bronze Age warrior armor found in Moravia dates to time of Trojan War

Archaeologists from the Brno City Museum have made a rare and precious discovery in South Moravia: a 3,200-year-old fragment of bronze armor dating back to the Late Bronze Age...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/07/bron...

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