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Tollund Man
Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged before death
Sutton Hoo
archaeological site near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK
Trundholm Sun Chariot
late Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark
Gundestrup cauldron
iron age silver cauldron found in Denmark
Rock Carvings in Tanum
archaeological site in Sweden
Viking ring fortress
type of circular fort built in Scandinavia in the Viking Age
Ale's Stones
stone ship in Ystad, Sweden
Golden Horns of Gallehus
archaeological artefact
Egtved Girl
Bronze age girl found in a Danish burial mound
lur
thumb|180px|right|A Bronze Age lur found in Brudevælte Mose, northeast of Lynge in Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand, [[Denmark]] thumb|180px|right|class=notpageimage |A modern lur from Norway, made of wood wrapped in birch bark A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people.
Grauballe Man
Iron Age bog body found in Denmark
Hjortspring boat
large canoe type vessel dated to 350 found in Hjortspring Mose at Als, Denmark
Raven banner
flag, possibly totemic, used by various Viking rulers
Haraldskær Woman
Iron Age bog body from Denmark
Treasure of Guarrazar
archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns and gold crosses from a site in Guadamur, prov. of Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Pietroasa Treasure
Gothic treasure
Ring of Pietroassa
gold torc-like necklace
Anundshög
thumb|right|300px|Anundshög with the two ship settings in front, June 2006 Anundshög (also Anundshögen and Anunds hög) is a tumulus near Västerås in Västmanland, the largest in Sweden. It has a diameter of and is about high.
Eberswalde Hoard
Bronze Age hoard of 81 gold objects
Överhogdal tapestries
series of Viking-era tapestries
Gjermundbu helmet
Viking Age helmet discovered in 1943 in Gjermundbu, Norway
Seax of Beagnoth
10th century Anglo-Saxon seax
Osterby Man
bog body
Cuerdale Hoard
Lancashire Viking silver hoard
votive crown
votive offering in Medieval Europe
Skrydstrup Woman
bronze age woman found in a tumulus in Denmark
Lindholm amulet
Bone piece with runic inscription
Veksø helmets
2 bronze helmets found near Veksø, Denmark
visby lenses
type of lenses
Nordendorf fibulae
gullgubbe
thumb|Gold foil figure from c. AD 700, found at Aska in Hagebyhöga, Sweden, in 2020. thumb|upright|6th–7th-century gullgubber from Sorte Muld, [[Bornholm]] thumb|upright|A "wraith" gullgubbe Gullgubber (Norwegian, ) or guldgubber (Danish, ), guldgubbar (Swedish, ), are art-objects, amulets, or offerings found in Scandinavia and dating to the Nordic Iron Age. They consist of thin pieces of beaten gold (occasionally silver), usually between . in size, usually stamped with a motif, and are the oldest examples of toreutics in Northern Europe.
Visigothic coinage
coinage used by the Visigoth people
Sæbø sword
viking sword
hacksilver
thumb|The mixed Viking Cuerdale Hoard, deposited in England before c. 910, also contains 8,600 coins, as well as these ingots and pieces of jewellery and plate. thumb|Hacksilver from the medieval period, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, Germany. thumb|Viking age settlement, eighth to eleventh centuries; trade and raid routes are marked green.
Hoby treasure
Iron Age grave goods found in Denmark
Alu
runic inscription with uncertain meaning
Tangendorf disc brooch
iron Age brooch found near Tangendorf, Germany
Gothic runic inscriptions
elder Futhark writings
Timerevo
Timerevo (, ) is an archaeological site near the village of Bolshoe Timeryovo, seven kilometers southwest of Yaroslavl, Russia, which yielded the largest deposits of early medieval Arabic coins in Northern Europe.
Hercules' Club
Roman Empire artefact type
Zierscheibe
thumb|Zierscheibe, part of a woman's belt from the Villanovan culture|Villanovan necropolis of [[Verucchio, Italy, 700-800 BC]] thumb|Alemannic Zierscheibe from Herbrechtingen (6th century) Zierscheibe (German for "ornamental disk") in archaeology is the term for a kind of metal jewellery dating to the European Iron Age. These disks are sometimes found in graves, and are thought to have been worn as pendants attached to the tunica, or as part of a belt pouch.
grave orb
Stone ball placed on a tomb