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
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
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 🧪🏺
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
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
And our oven is ready #vikingedage at Moesgaard
#Vikingage #reconstruction #outdoor #kitchen #archaeology
#Vikingage #reconstruction #outdoor #kitchen #archaeology
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
And our oven is ready #vikingedage at Moesgaard
#Vikingage #reconstruction #outdoor #kitchen #archaeology
#Vikingage #reconstruction #outdoor #kitchen #archaeology
#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.
Ups....do you need clay? 🤣 Of course, but oven building is a slow process. Today it is already half done.
July 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ups....do you need clay? 🤣 Of course, but oven building is a slow process. Today it is already half done.
#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!
The #rockart panel Fluberget near Stavanger is perhaps the Bronze Age equivalent of #Vogue! For #findsfriday the depiction of a large, round bronze disc and a short, #stringskirt. The most known #marriage dress of the #Bronzeage over 3000 years ago.
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The #rockart panel Fluberget near Stavanger is perhaps the Bronze Age equivalent of #Vogue! For #findsfriday the depiction of a large, round bronze disc and a short, #stringskirt. The most known #marriage dress of the #Bronzeage over 3000 years ago.
Bronze Age Expert Sees Rock Art for First Time—After 17 Years of Study!
This is a good headline for the gap in my education that has now been filled. Good, that I work with #Bronzeage #metals and know them. I present: me looking pleased next to the famous Fluberget #rockart panel near Stavanger.
This is a good headline for the gap in my education that has now been filled. Good, that I work with #Bronzeage #metals and know them. I present: me looking pleased next to the famous Fluberget #rockart panel near Stavanger.
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bronze Age Expert Sees Rock Art for First Time—After 17 Years of Study!
This is a good headline for the gap in my education that has now been filled. Good, that I work with #Bronzeage #metals and know them. I present: me looking pleased next to the famous Fluberget #rockart panel near Stavanger.
This is a good headline for the gap in my education that has now been filled. Good, that I work with #Bronzeage #metals and know them. I present: me looking pleased next to the famous Fluberget #rockart panel near Stavanger.
Here they are: the hidden traces of #BronzeAge people!
I found crafting traces 🧪on the #bronze #dagger from Horsens! All the rivets are individually hammered into square rods using the same #technique. All the rivets are different lengths and shapes. #archaeology #burial
I found crafting traces 🧪on the #bronze #dagger from Horsens! All the rivets are individually hammered into square rods using the same #technique. All the rivets are different lengths and shapes. #archaeology #burial
July 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Here they are: the hidden traces of #BronzeAge people!
I found crafting traces 🧪on the #bronze #dagger from Horsens! All the rivets are individually hammered into square rods using the same #technique. All the rivets are different lengths and shapes. #archaeology #burial
I found crafting traces 🧪on the #bronze #dagger from Horsens! All the rivets are individually hammered into square rods using the same #technique. All the rivets are different lengths and shapes. #archaeology #burial
Did you know that you need to use your fingers to tell a good #story?
Have you wondered how #archaeologists can tell so much about the only through #artefacts? Even in our #AI-driven world, #drawing archaeological artefacts by hand is normal.
It's a great way to get to know your object!
#Bronzeage 🧪
Have you wondered how #archaeologists can tell so much about the only through #artefacts? Even in our #AI-driven world, #drawing archaeological artefacts by hand is normal.
It's a great way to get to know your object!
#Bronzeage 🧪
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Did you know that you need to use your fingers to tell a good #story?
Have you wondered how #archaeologists can tell so much about the only through #artefacts? Even in our #AI-driven world, #drawing archaeological artefacts by hand is normal.
It's a great way to get to know your object!
#Bronzeage 🧪
Have you wondered how #archaeologists can tell so much about the only through #artefacts? Even in our #AI-driven world, #drawing archaeological artefacts by hand is normal.
It's a great way to get to know your object!
#Bronzeage 🧪