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Vendel Period Manor at Slöinge

Check out Lars Lundqvist's web site about the Slöinge excavations in Halland, Sweden! It's been on-line for ages and I only found it just now. All in English. The above picture shows a tiny gold foil figure of an...

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Vendel Period Manor at Slöinge

Category: ArchaeologySweden
Posted on: January 10, 2007 2:17 PM, by Martin R

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Check out Lars Lundqvist's web site about the Slöinge excavations in Halland, Sweden! It's been on-line for ages and I only found it just now. All in English.

The above picture shows a tiny gold foil figure of an embracing couple -- possibly the divine ancestors touted by Vendel Period aristocrats. You find them in the post holes of the period's mead halls. If you wet-sieve, that is.

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