Ny Björn Gustafsson
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Swedish archaeologist (PhD, Arch Sci). Finds specialist (Iron Age through Medieval per.) Surveyor of islands in the Baltic Sea. 😍LiDAR-spotting! Papers etc: https://raa.academia.edu/NyBj%C3%B6rnGustafsson
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It is always good to look at things from new angles.

Yesterday I stumbled upon an ornamented fragment which is depicted in “Birka Studies 2”. When turned correctly it is evidently a piece of a Kazakevièius IIb-scabbard chape.
To my knowledge the first trace of one from Björkö/Birka.

#FindsFriday
The fragment (right, 📸: Swedish History Museum) beside a better preserved scabbard from (📸 Örebro County Museum)
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Mike Fergusson in his natural habitat!
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Bloody 😈!

Went to Wikimaps for a look at where Wiki Commons-photos are geographically positioned at St Karlsö, W off Gotland.

Found two in an awkward position…

THEY WERE MINE, captured & uploaded last year but plotted ~800 m too far to the NNE. Probably caused by GPS-jamming from Königsberg.
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An older but nonetheless very nice Norwegian find for #FindsFriday:

An ornamented (and burnt) bone fragment from Reistad in Levanger, Trøndelag. Found 1935 in a burial mound. The pelleted body implies Mammen-style (c. ~1000 CE).

More here: www.unimus.no/portal/#/thi...

(📸: CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fragment of a burnt Viking-period ornamented bone plate with entwined animals in Mammen-esque style.
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Fabulous indeed! I get truly worried when I see those empty containers in situ though. I hope there was a REALLY good reason tho why they skipped plaster casting it and excavation in a controlled environment. And that they documented every coin before removal...
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Every day gets a fair bit brighter by a good look at what I normally call the Bamberg casket, and others “the casket of Empress Cunigunde”.
Mammen-style, mainly. Fantastic in every sense of the word!

(📸: CC BY-NC-ND - more here: www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/en/collectio...)
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Det var vidrigt, och så fruktansvärt meningslöst. Stora spisen var det bara grus och skärvor kvar av. Bara för att ett gäng avskum inte ville lämna fingeravtryck efter sig.
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Med tanke på hur det såg ut efter branden är det dock faktiskt att det kommit tillbaka ur aska och drivor av sönderbränd sten.
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Oerhört fint däruppe. Hade varit intressant att hälsa på dem när det begav sig, men som med alla hus som ingen bor i längre blir jag alltid lite sorgsen när jag har vägarna förbi.
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För första gången jag varit med och koordinerat har vi i år arrangemang i alla Sveriges landskap.

Ta chansen, förnöj och bilda er i helgen! Mycket bebyggelse, men även massor av annat.

(🇬🇧 : European Heritage Days are on in 🇸🇪 !)

www.raa.se/evenemang-oc...
Besök Kulturarvsdagens arrangemang
Välkommen till Kulturarvsdagens alla arrangemang runt om i Sverige. Vill du resa längre bort finns fler arrangemang på www.europeanheritagedays.com.
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Bor så att jag har bra koll mot ost-sydost från trädgården, har dock lurat iväg sonen ut till kusten med kamera och stativ, det lär bli bra bilder - men det hade han fått här hemma med…

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Ett annat kulturarv - fick med lite lock och pock rull på den 85-åriga militärcykeln jag köpte för åratal sedan. Trög i starten, därefter svårstoppad!

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Reposted by Ny Björn Gustafsson
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Wiki Loves Monuments drar igång idag! 🏰📸
Fota svenska minnesmärken och ladda upp till Wikimedia Commons under hela september – var med och dokumentera vårt gemensamma kulturarv och tävla samtidigt om fina priser!

Läs mer: www.wikilovesmonuments.se

#WLMSverige #WLM2025
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This also creates some more low-key problems - e.g. when capturing photos for Wiki Loves Monuments here on Gotland you cannot automatically trust the geotags rendered by your smartphone.

I have had to edit some geotags with several 100s of meters in recent years…

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sweden says Russia behind surge in GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
Interferences to satellite navigational systems occur almost daily, aviation officials say.
www.bbc.com
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Heureka!

I re-found the large historic “Saga map” I bought when I lived in Iceland in the 90’s.

It’s fabulous!
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Indeed. I will try to get the fragment scanned or something, it’s too small for my phone to focus properly.
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Here’s a little coin fragment for the numismatists of Bluesky…

Found 2014 at the Viking-period harbour site Paviken on western Gotland, but uninterpreted.
Sorry for the bad photos, I just had a few moments to snap them in a dim-lighted storage today…

Any ideas?
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Oh-la-la!

Apparently this heraldic padlock key with striking birds-of-prey was found during the large-scaled, so-called, excavations of burial mounds in Vladimir Oblast, present-day Russia in the 1850's. Published in 1905.

I've only seen them from Sweden & Finland (e.g. Birka, right pic) before...
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An interesting piece indeed - that sword reminds a bit of the wolf-beasts on the Lundagård stone (DR 314), though they appears to be equipped with shields as well...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_1_...