Heide Wrobel Nørgaard
@heidewnoergaard.bsky.social
Goldsmith and PhD archaeologist who works with traditional archaeological methods and archaeometallurgy to understand the technologies of the past and their development.
Need to share this...the #nuraghe from Santa Cristina on #Sardinia dating some 3200 years ago. A #Bronzeage monument of emense beauty. #archaeology 🏺
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Need to share this...the #nuraghe from Santa Cristina on #Sardinia dating some 3200 years ago. A #Bronzeage monument of emense beauty. #archaeology 🏺
These corner stones of the #Bronzeage wall structure around the #settlement at Santa Cristina on Sardinia are part of the #nuraghe culture and date to 1000isch BC. Here pictured for #standingstonesunday. 🏺
October 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
These corner stones of the #Bronzeage wall structure around the #settlement at Santa Cristina on Sardinia are part of the #nuraghe culture and date to 1000isch BC. Here pictured for #standingstonesunday. 🏺
I am on Sardinia looking for #Bronzeage connection between the #nuraghe culture and the #Nordic Bronze Age. Might it be in #Nuoro I can find evidence? This guy looks familiar... #archaeology 🏺 #MoesgaardMuseum
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I am on Sardinia looking for #Bronzeage connection between the #nuraghe culture and the #Nordic Bronze Age. Might it be in #Nuoro I can find evidence? This guy looks familiar... #archaeology 🏺 #MoesgaardMuseum
When the assumed 20 cm of colluvium (?) turned out to be 75 cm! To understand the #environmental changes at the #sacredwell in Matzanni, #Sardinia, we dug test pits 🏺– this one was deep! #archaeology #Bronzeage #ironage #moesgaard #augustinusfoundation
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When the assumed 20 cm of colluvium (?) turned out to be 75 cm! To understand the #environmental changes at the #sacredwell in Matzanni, #Sardinia, we dug test pits 🏺– this one was deep! #archaeology #Bronzeage #ironage #moesgaard #augustinusfoundation
On #FindsFriday I present a question! This #metallography of a late iron age #slag has an inclusion I cannot identify! The slag contains fayalite and wustite indicating iron #smelting, but what is this layering around the cavity?
#archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺
#archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
On #FindsFriday I present a question! This #metallography of a late iron age #slag has an inclusion I cannot identify! The slag contains fayalite and wustite indicating iron #smelting, but what is this layering around the cavity?
#archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺
#archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺
#fieldwork season on #Sardinia has started! This time in focus #environmental changes on a local scale. That means test pits in clay on bedrock. Yeah, who says #archaeology is boring? 🏺
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#fieldwork season on #Sardinia has started! This time in focus #environmental changes on a local scale. That means test pits in clay on bedrock. Yeah, who says #archaeology is boring? 🏺
Modern challenges in copying #ancient #craft techniques. At #FindsFriday the bead made by Murano glas is an attempt to copy the technique, quality and design of the 2000 year old #Millefiori glas fragments from #roman Murina bowls. #tübingenmuseum #archaeology #ironage #romans
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Modern challenges in copying #ancient #craft techniques. At #FindsFriday the bead made by Murano glas is an attempt to copy the technique, quality and design of the 2000 year old #Millefiori glas fragments from #roman Murina bowls. #tübingenmuseum #archaeology #ironage #romans
I just gave my lecture on #craft traces and #workshop organisation in #Bronzeage at the 6th NAHM workshop. It's amazing to present this to such a qualified audience. Seeing a #goldsmith nod when you present the #technological traces on the #bronze work is a very good feeling. #archaeology 🏺
September 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I just gave my lecture on #craft traces and #workshop organisation in #Bronzeage at the 6th NAHM workshop. It's amazing to present this to such a qualified audience. Seeing a #goldsmith nod when you present the #technological traces on the #bronze work is a very good feeling. #archaeology 🏺
Tracespotting! What do traces of prehistoric #metalworking look like, where can we find them, and what can they tell us about ancient #craftsmanship? 🏺
This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.
This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.
September 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Tracespotting! What do traces of prehistoric #metalworking look like, where can we find them, and what can they tell us about ancient #craftsmanship? 🏺
This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.
This is the topic of the 6th workshop of the Network for Archaeological and Historical Metalworking held in Tübingen this year.
Totally focused on a weekend? Yes, it's playtime in the #smithy, and I need to produce some #videos showing the different types of #blacksmithing residue from an archaeological perspective. There are hardly any. #archaeology #ironage #metallurgy #hammerscale
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Totally focused on a weekend? Yes, it's playtime in the #smithy, and I need to produce some #videos showing the different types of #blacksmithing residue from an archaeological perspective. There are hardly any. #archaeology #ironage #metallurgy #hammerscale
#StandingStoneSunday a tour through the Nature National Park #MolsBjerge, Jutland, Denmark. The Porskær #Megalith has a roofstone that was splittet in the middle and is one of the largest constructions in DK with in all 35 stones. 🏺 #stoneage #archaeology #bronzeage
September 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#StandingStoneSunday a tour through the Nature National Park #MolsBjerge, Jutland, Denmark. The Porskær #Megalith has a roofstone that was splittet in the middle and is one of the largest constructions in DK with in all 35 stones. 🏺 #stoneage #archaeology #bronzeage
Have a look at the article, we are happy the first results are published now...https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328268
Bronze figurines from Sardinia carry the isotopic fingerprints of Mediterranean trade 3,000 years ago—linking horned-helmeted warriors to networks stretching to Iberia and perhaps Scandinavia. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Nuragic #Anthropology
Horns Across the Sea: Bronze Figurines and the Metal Highways of the First Millennium BCE
Sardinian bronzetti reveal a far-reaching trade network that linked the Mediterranean to northern Europe
www.anthropology.net
September 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Have a look at the article, we are happy the first results are published now...https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328268
Absolutely great results to the extend of mobility in #Bronzeage.
Isotope clues from Seddin’s monumental burial mounds show Late Bronze Age elites were long-distance travelers linking Scandinavia, Central Europe & Italy. #BronzeAge #Archaeology #HumanMobility #Anthropology
Bronze Age Elites on the Move: The Foreign Dead of Seddin
Strontium signatures from German burial mounds point to long-distance mobility and elite networks between Scandinavia, Central Europe, and Italy.
www.anthropology.net
September 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Absolutely great results to the extend of mobility in #Bronzeage.
In our Augustinus fundet project #MetalsandGiants, we published first results 🧪 in @plosone.org The #article describes a multi-proxy method that allows distinguishing between Sardinian, Iberian, and Levantine copper using osmium isotopes. We aim to understand metal trade in #bronzeage #Sardinia.
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Multiproxy analysis unwraps origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines: On the trail of metal-driven interaction and mixing practices in the early first millennium BCE
This article presents a multiproxy investigation of metal samples obtained from 48 Nuragic figurines (so-called bronzetti) and three copper bun ingots. These objects originate from three prominent Sar...
journals.plos.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In our Augustinus fundet project #MetalsandGiants, we published first results 🧪 in @plosone.org The #article describes a multi-proxy method that allows distinguishing between Sardinian, Iberian, and Levantine copper using osmium isotopes. We aim to understand metal trade in #bronzeage #Sardinia.
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Extreme nerding! The #ARCMET #EAA community on #archaeometallurgy 🧪 is trying something new this time at the #EAA2025. We met to join our session #146 multi-disciplinarian metalwork as a group. Our #AarhusUni Hub hopefully shows that online conferences can be social too. 🏺#Bronzeage
September 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Extreme nerding! The #ARCMET #EAA community on #archaeometallurgy 🧪 is trying something new this time at the #EAA2025. We met to join our session #146 multi-disciplinarian metalwork as a group. Our #AarhusUni Hub hopefully shows that online conferences can be social too. 🏺#Bronzeage
Great new book on #Bronzeage water deposits....I am looking forward to get my hands on it.
Archaeoethnologica: Water Depots in Bronze Age Rhein / Depósitos Aquáticos da Idade do Bronze no Reno
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/depo...
#Archaeology #Protohistory #BronzeAge #Hoards #water #waterdepots #CentralEurope #materialculture #weapons #ritual #books #openaccess
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/depo...
#Archaeology #Protohistory #BronzeAge #Hoards #water #waterdepots #CentralEurope #materialculture #weapons #ritual #books #openaccess
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great new book on #Bronzeage water deposits....I am looking forward to get my hands on it.
Late #FindsFriday. Last week, I showed you an experimental #bronze disc, made using bronze #tools on a bronze plate. This week, I show you the other part of the experiment: a #cast bronze disc with a decoration that was inserted into the model and cast as such. #archaeology 🧪🏺
August 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Late #FindsFriday. Last week, I showed you an experimental #bronze disc, made using bronze #tools on a bronze plate. This week, I show you the other part of the experiment: a #cast bronze disc with a decoration that was inserted into the model and cast as such. #archaeology 🧪🏺
Warum so überrascht? Deine Zeichnungen sind klasse und verdienen es gross rauszukommen. Weiter so @jensnotroff.com
Puh, ich glaube *so* groß hab' ich bisher keine meiner Zeichnungen irgendwo gesehen. 😲😉
Die @aktarcha.bsky.social-Wanderausstellung gibt's noch bis Ende nächster Woche im Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen zu sehen - weitere Hintergründe zum Projekt auch hier:
www.unibw.de/geschichte/p...
Die @aktarcha.bsky.social-Wanderausstellung gibt's noch bis Ende nächster Woche im Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen zu sehen - weitere Hintergründe zum Projekt auch hier:
www.unibw.de/geschichte/p...
August 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Warum so überrascht? Deine Zeichnungen sind klasse und verdienen es gross rauszukommen. Weiter so @jensnotroff.com
For #FindsFriday a real treasure. This close-up shows a typical #BronzeAge #spiral design punched with bronze #tools in bronze. It was an experiment carried out in the 1870's by famous #Danish archaeologists. This treasure trove of #knowledge was buried in a storage room until I discovered it! 🧪
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
For #FindsFriday a real treasure. This close-up shows a typical #BronzeAge #spiral design punched with bronze #tools in bronze. It was an experiment carried out in the 1870's by famous #Danish archaeologists. This treasure trove of #knowledge was buried in a storage room until I discovered it! 🧪
#FindsFriday on my knees! The beauty in the corner is the late #Bronzeage #amphora from Herzberg. A thin metal sheet #vessel with hump decoration. Looking forward to detect the #craft traces.
#archaeology #Ironage #Moesgaardmuseum #LandesmuseumBrandenburg
#archaeology #Ironage #Moesgaardmuseum #LandesmuseumBrandenburg
August 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#FindsFriday on my knees! The beauty in the corner is the late #Bronzeage #amphora from Herzberg. A thin metal sheet #vessel with hump decoration. Looking forward to detect the #craft traces.
#archaeology #Ironage #Moesgaardmuseum #LandesmuseumBrandenburg
#archaeology #Ironage #Moesgaardmuseum #LandesmuseumBrandenburg
Fantastic, a new #bronze armor find! #Bronzeage
Bronze Age warrior armor found in Moravia dates to time of Trojan War
Archaeologists from the Brno City Museum have made a rare and precious discovery in South Moravia: a 3,200-year-old fragment of bronze armor dating back to the Late Bronze Age...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/07/bron...
Archaeologists from the Brno City Museum have made a rare and precious discovery in South Moravia: a 3,200-year-old fragment of bronze armor dating back to the Late Bronze Age...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/07/bron...
August 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Fantastic, a new #bronze armor find! #Bronzeage
For #FindsFriday a beautiful vulstring (thick hollow #cast bronze leg ring) from the Late #Bronzeage. I was allowed to examine the pair of rings, found in central #Jutland, that date to 600 BCE. #archaeology
August 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For #FindsFriday a beautiful vulstring (thick hollow #cast bronze leg ring) from the Late #Bronzeage. I was allowed to examine the pair of rings, found in central #Jutland, that date to 600 BCE. #archaeology
July 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#MolsVikingelaug at Moesgaard #MoesgaardVikingedage2025 Our camp for the next days is built and we are ready to #disseminate the housecrafts of #Viking times.
July 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#MolsVikingelaug at Moesgaard #MoesgaardVikingedage2025 Our camp for the next days is built and we are ready to #disseminate the housecrafts of #Viking times.
#MoesgaardVikingedage2025 at Moesgaard beach and #MolsVikingelaug is again part of this fantastic event. Our #viking oven is nearly ready!
July 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#MoesgaardVikingedage2025 at Moesgaard beach and #MolsVikingelaug is again part of this fantastic event. Our #viking oven is nearly ready!