The Fröslunda Hoard is a Late Bronze Age bronze ritual cache of Herzsprung type shields. The hoard was discovered in the Froslunda region of Sweden in the mid-1980s.
The fourteen shields found in the Fröslunda hoard are of thin, hammered bronze which could not have been used as defensive weapons. The shields are also in pairs, echoing a ritual activity identified in Scandinavian bronze age. , included a total of 14 Late Bronze Age shields of the central European type, made of hammered bronze, most likely ceremonial.
Sources
Goodway, Martha and Chen Yuyan. 1996. The Fröslunda shields: Cymbals or symbols? 1996. Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 9:49-52
Stig Sorenson, Marie Louise. 199The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Any mistakes are the responsibility of Kris Hirst.
