Tak! 🙌🏻

You are right - the two bears under 'd' are the forgeries

However, most of them were made of bronze and featured an inlay of silver on the front - which sadly often isn't preseved in the ploughsoil. Most is found by metal detectorist, like this one from Stevns municipality.
#Archaeology 🏺

📷DI48472, metaldetektorfund.dk

I'll share a very similar brooch from Nørre Sandegård (Bornholm), Denmark. - Over 1300 km from Haukenes.
📷Lennart Larsen, National Museum of Denmark, CC-BY-SA

My head (or heart) cannot bear the thought of all that was famously "I'll-remember-that-no-need-to-write-it-down" lost..

The material we excavate are not perfect either, and we can't change either of it - just make sure to do better in the future.

It becomes an excavation in itselves to figure out old unpublished dataset and registrations for later publishing. Oh those notebooks have given me more nightmares that I'll like to admit...

Almost the same thing was done in Denmark with 4 pigs between 1989-1992. Archaeologist Mogens Bo Henriksen burned the pigs, buried the remains and they where just dug up last year!
(Pub pending: news article: shorturl.at/k8Ajb )
#Experimentalarchaeology #Archaeology 🏺

Those tortoise brooch reproductions are absolutely gorgeous!