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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 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...

$Arms and Armour in 3D (2): Bucklers$

Arms and Armour in 3D (2): Bucklers

Aug 10, 2018 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month 2

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...

The Schwarzburg Armoury (3): Three Early Bayonet Types

May 01, 2018 Konrad Kessler All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month 0

Introductory note: In May 2018 – almost 100 years after the abdication of the last prince of the house of Schwarzburg – the Schwarzburger Zeughaus, the armoury of the Schwarzburg castle, is to...

The Schwarzburg Armoury (1): The Großmesser (Oss 307)

Jan 12, 2018 Konrad Kessler All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Uncategorized 0

Introductory note: In May 2018 – almost 100 years after the abdication of the last prince of the house of Schwarzburg – the Schwarzburger Zeughaus, the armoury of the Schwarzburg castle, is to be...

Gribshunden: Significance and Preliminary Investigations

Jul 01, 2015 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Uncategorized 9

Introduction Within the sheltered waters of Ronneby archipelago near the island of Stora Ekön, southeastern Sweden, lies the remains of a rather disjointed but well-preserved wooden wreck....

The Case of Refshaleborg Castle

May 26, 2015 Thit Birk Petersen All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Uncategorized 0

The islands of Lolland and Falster in southeastern Denmark are often considered rather uneventful areas which are seldom host to any major happening. This, however, was not always the case. These two...

Artefact of the Month: The Mail Chausses of Mølledalen, Buskerud

Mar 25, 2015 Dan True All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month 0

This month’s artefact are the fragments of a pair of mail chausses (leggings) brought into Oldsaksamlingen in Oslo in the 1800s (figs. 1 and 2). The chausses were brought in together with...

The Neolithic Genocide at Asparn-Schletz

Feb 28, 2015 Rolf Warming All Posts, Combat Archaeology, Our Artefact of the Month, Uncategorized 4

The change from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to the agrarian life was nothing more than a defining moment in history. To most, it is when people “began to settle down”. Regardless...

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