Excavations at Helgö

This volume is devoted to Cemetery 118, the excavated remains of building Group 7 that underlay it, and a single grave from Cemetery 115 which was investigated under rescue conditions. Two-thirds of the burials on Cemetery 118 were excavated in 1976-1978; the remainder were left uninvestigated when the Helgö Project was closed down in autumn 1978. Julie Melin has here collated the excavation recor

This volume is primarily devoted to archaeological discussion and scientific analysis of objects relating to Early Medieval metalworking at Helgö. It deals with the finds from the Building Group 3 workshop, same of which have already been printed, in various contexts, in Excavations at Helgö IV, V:1, VII-XI and XV. In addition, Excavations at Helgö XVII presents a new survey of all the building gr

In this the eighteenth and last volume in the series Excavations at Helgö, thirteen authors present the latest conclusions and add some new approaches to the results of the excavations carried out between 1954 and 1978 at Helgö. A clarification of the grid system used in the excavations and of the final numbering system for the finds is provided in an appendix that applies to all the volumes. This

The weapons of iron found in the settlements at Helgö is the starting point for this treatise. These weapons, mainly consisting of parts of swords and spearheads, were found in building group 2 and could be characterized as high status weapons. An important part of the treatise has been to define the technical components and levels in weapon manufacturing in the early Medieval period. A comparativ

The book contains six articles by different authors: Bo Gyllensvärd, The Buddha found at Helgö Peter Harbison, The Helgö crozier head Morten Axboe, The bracteates from Helgö Jan Peder Lamm, Figural gold foils found in Sweden: a study based on the discoveries from Helgö Torun Zachrisson, The holiness of Helgö Synnöve Reisborg, The twenty-sixth figural gold foil. Report on the 1981 excavation of the