Strange things in the ground

Uppåkra was between 100 B.C. till 1000 A.D. one of the biggest ancient villages known (until now) in Sweden. They found artefacts from quite a part of the world (a bowl from the Black Sea region, silver and gold coins from Rome and a silver beaker from some local highly skilled goldsmith). All diggings together they found already several thousand artefacts found on different diggings. If the artefacts are not on travel in the rest of the world (now in Germany) you can find them in the Barbaricum exhibition at the Lund University Historical Museum.

A lot of nice and good information is available on http://uppakra.se/

The builded area in Uppåkra was around 40 ha. So as we live close there is a chance we can find also some artefacts deep in the ground. Problem is, if we dig up something, we have to pay the excavation from the archeologists on our lawn. So it’s a bad idea to dig deep into the ground looking for gold and silver coins.

But we did found already thousands of artefacts our self. I guess not so important stuff...

This is the result of 1 day working in the garden.

While digging in the ground and cleaning up nettles, also strange things are coming on our way. The function of these two rusty metal utensils are still unknown.

I thought a antique geological hammer but Carin was sure they were different. And some search on internet showed she was right. But we didn't found out what it was.