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.
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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.
