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Online lecture: The Five Ships from Skuldelev – a look at 11th century Scandinavian shipbuilding and warfare

Mar 06, 2024 Rolf Warming All Posts 0

Speaker:Jacob Nyborg Andreassen, archaeologist/curator at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde and SoCA Trustee. Date/time: 18.30 (CET) on 4 April, 2024 Description: In 1962, five Viking Age ships were...

Online Lecture: ‘The Physiology of Combat’

Apr 19, 2023 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology 2

On June 15th, Dr. Andreas Hansen (Head Physician and SoCA trustee) will be giving an online lecture on ‘the physiology of combat’. The lecture will explore what happens inside the mind and body...

Get involved!

Mar 20, 2023 Rolf Warming All Posts 0

Sign up for membership The Society for Combat Archaeology is now open for membership! We are seeking to grow and develop our community, both online and in real life. If you enjoy our work and would...

The Loss of the King’s flagship GRIBSHUNDEN (1495): An Unknown Historical Source Surfaces

Nov 22, 2020 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Research, Uncategorized 0

The wreck of Danish king John’s (or Hans’) flagship, GRIBSHUNDEN, which sank in 1495, was the focus of an underwater archaeological survey carried out on the wreck site earlier this week. The...

NEW STUDY RELEASED: Shields and Hide

Oct 09, 2020 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Research, Uncategorized 2

In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, published today in English in the peer-reviewed journal, Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, we are finally able to reveal the...

Notes on the Guns and Gun Carriages Aboard GRIBSHUNDEN (1495)

Oct 05, 2020 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Research, Uncategorized 0

Background In the summer of 1495, King John I of Denmark set out on an important diplomatic mission aboard his flagship, GRIBSHUNDEN (English= “Griffin-Hound”), or the GRIFFIN, as she is also...

A Lack of Cannons – The Map of Christianstad in 1673

Apr 25, 2020 Claes Pettersson All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Uncategorized 1

When you enter the world of archives you sometimes find things that you were not really looking for, but which nevertheless carry exciting stories. That happened when I recently searched for military...

The Viking Shield: The First Authentic Viking Age Shield

Apr 17, 2019 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Research, Uncategorized 4

Numerous attempts have been made to reconstruct Viking Age round shields, this possibly being one of the most characteristic pieces of equipment carried by warriors of that period. Such...

The Handle of the Viking Age Shield from Trelleborg

Apr 09, 2019 Rolf Warming All Posts, Our Artefact of the Month, Research 3

The shield handle of the Viking Age shield excavated at Trelleborg (Denmark) has been a subject of much debate, partly because of general rarity of extant Viking Age shield handles and the...

Arms and Armour in 3D (4): 16th Century Swivel Gun

Oct 18, 2018 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Uncategorized 0

Introductory Note: For the past few weeks, Rolf Warming (Society for Combat Archaeology) has been working closely with the 3D scanning team from Rigsters with the aim of producing highly detailed...

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