LBV Magazine English Edition holds within its windswept landscape the eroded remains of several fornborgs circular stone fortifications built during the Iron Age archaeologists focused their attention on one of these enclosures located two kilometers from the village of Södra Sandby Aerial photographs revealed what appeared to be the ruins of 53 houses nestled within its oval stone walls An initial inspection detected signs of looting Fieldwork with metal detectors uncovered something astounding: caches of jewelry and gold coins hidden among the debris as there were also exquisite brooches and pendants that bore the marks of the wealth and status of the aristocracy of the Migration Period Sandby Borg held deep mysteries beneath its surface Excavations began under the direction of archaeologists from the Kalmar County Museum another incredible discovery was made: skeletons were unearthed inside several houses and children lay where their lives had been brutally cut short offering an extremely rare glimpse into the gruesome violence of a massacre Excavations in subsequent years uncovered more bodies whose bones bore savage wounds inflicted by blades and blunt objects women dressed in their finest clothes—meet such a dark fate more than 9% of the fort’s interior had been excavated and three of the 53 homes had been unearthed Each campaign reveals more pieces of this puzzling story of destruction The meticulous analysis of the remains by osteologists Anna Kjellström and Clara Alfsdotter has unveiled secrets locked in the bones ranging from young children to the elderly but some originated hundreds of kilometers away The houses also contained everyday objects mixed in with the carnage: pottery But other more prestigious items revealed Sandby Borg’s former prosperity: jewelry Two gold brooches featured motifs related to southern Scandinavian styles from around 450-510 AD Researchers believe that those who lived there had been mercenaries in the Roman army one of at least 15 circular forts erected on Öland its curved dry-stone wall enclosed 5,000 square meters with imposing towers guarding four gates spaced at the cardinal points The houses radiating from the central block had plastered walls with central hearths and raised sleeping areas Craftsmen and merchants lived in cozy homes The fertile farmland nearby provided grain and flax It was a self-sufficient fortress whose inhabitants were isolated from the turmoil ravaging continental Europe Archaeologists speculate that the massacre may have coincided with the climatic changes of the late 4th century AD The apparent wealth of Sandby Borg may have made it a target for marauders Familiar passageways soon became scenes of horror as the attackers unleashed carnage on the settlement Those who remained must have fled to nearby villages with the terrifying story But why did no one return to bury the dead The secrets of Sandby Borg remained hidden for over a millennium its walls collapsed and merged with the landscape and vegetation slowly reclaimed the houses Centuries blurred the memories of those terrible days into local folklore It became just another grass-covered mound on the plains of Öland An ancient local legend had already warned of something terrible at Sandby Borg The rediscovery in 2011 rekindled interest in the true story of Sandby Borg’s demise new excavations uncover more layers of this Nordic Pompeii frozen in time the highly eroded oval stone wall still reaches a height of nearly 3 meters of the original 5 enclosing an area of approximately 5,000 square meters Three gates are visible as shallow depressions in the wall This article was first published on our Spanish Edition on September 28, 2023: Sandby Borg, el lugar donde los arqueólogos encontraron una espeluznante escena de la Edad del Hierro congelada en el tiempo Alfsdotter, C., Papmehl-Dufay, L., & Victor, H. (2018). A moment frozen in time: Evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg. Antiquity, 92(362), 421-436. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.21 Sandby Borg (Sitio Oficial) Wikipedia, Sandby borg Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that… men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of… the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May 2024 and the end of March 2025 The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of a group of defensive structures and a system of moats that could indicate… In the southeastern area of the city of Rome archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette… Why did some animals from ancient eras become fossils while others simply disappeared without a trace A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of the artworks it contains could be much older… A team of paleontologists from the University of Leicester has managed to decipher one of the many enigmas of the dinosaur era—the exact moment when pterosaurs Rome achieved numerous military victories that allowed it to grow and dominate nearly the entire known world in Antiquity Receive our news and articles in your email for free You can also support us with a monthly subscription and receive exclusive content SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM: Please consider donating to keep our website running and free for all - thank you When Sweden’s Prince Oscar was born this March he was granted the title of the Duke of Skåne by his maternal grandfather the residents of his Duchy have planned a lovely gift for the third-in-line to the Swedish throne The plan was put forward by Governor Margaret Palsson who wrote to 33 municipalities in Skåne and the Skåne Region and the South Swedish Chamber of Commerce asking them to be involved in the project and to make suggestions about what would be an appropriate gift for the young Prince “We are expected to deliver a gift from Skåne associated with the baptism and I want us to do something really good My idea is to create something lasting that promotes good health among children and young people which I know that Crown Princess thinks is important,” the Governor wrote in her letter it was decided that a nature playground would be built in honour of the two month-old Duke of Skåne Known as “Prins Oscars lekplats” or “Prince Oscar’s playground” the park will be built entirely out of natural materials and will be open to children of all ages a natural recreation area located between Dalby and Södra Sandby in Skåne It will reportedly cost around 1 million euros to build Since the park will not be ready in time for the christening the Duchy of Skåne will instead present Prince Oscar with a painting of the proposed structure along with a description of what will be built and a list of those involved Prince Oscar will be christened on May 27 in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace of Stockholm Klara Åström started playing football at the age of five with Södra Sandby IF and made her debut in the first team at the age of 16 she scored four goals in 25 matches in Division 1 before making the move to Malmö FF in December of the same year she was one of the key players for the U19 team and also got the chance to play with the senior women’s team during pre-season when she was substituted in the friendly match against Eskilsminne IF at Limhamns IP Åström also made her debut for the Swedish U17 national team when she started in the international match against Denmark Klara Åström will wear the number 14 shirt NORTHAMPTON — Anne Whiston Spirn wants to be clear about her choice of metaphor “A window is something to look through,” Spirn has said “but a doorway is to pass through; crossing a threshold one enters a new place.” A sense of place deeply informs “The Eye Is a Door: Landscape Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn.” The show runs through Aug Those places range from very near to very far: Nahant There are 47 color photographs in the show and at least seven have doorways or entrances in them who teaches landscape architecture and planning at MIT they seem so specifically in the given moment that Spirn took them that they stand outside of time “Finding the place to stand may be a matter of inches as of years,” she’s written The effect of scale is nearly as great as that of color Most of the pictures are 20 inches by 30 inches or 30 inches by 40 inches with two (relative) behemoths of 50 inches by 40 inches There’s a sense of space to go with the sense of place The size of the pictures makes the landscapes feel habitable but often evidence of their presence — not just the “acceptable” picturesqueness of white-washed cottages or stone walls And just as nature can raise up and ennoble the man-made — isn’t the appeal of a stone wall that it seems like a geological formation being put to use Another picture from Södra Sandby shows several trees seen from beneath and tendril in the right half of the image recalls the fecund density of a Pollock canvas Sweden” the man-made setting appears so intrinsic to the landscape as to feel as much a part of nature as any meadow or knoll Perhaps the finest expression of this collaboration between nature and artifice is a photograph of the exterior of the architect Alvar Aalto’s studio with slender tree trunks and branches in the foreground and sun-splashed wall and doorway behind The images are too grounded in specificity for that and the emotions here are always rooted in place — a particular “Photography is to seeing what poetry is to writing,” Spirn has said What’s certainly the case is that her images honor Ezra Pound’s dictum that “Poetry has to be as well written as prose.” Spirn’s is Mark Feeney can be reached at mfeeney@globe.com. 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