Today is our last day digging for the 2015 Stensö/Landsjö Excavation Season. We will mostly be filling the trenches that remain open, returning tools to the local museum, and cleaning the house. However, this week we made several awesome finds.
In Trench I, inside the southwestern tower room, identified as a cellar of some sort, we finally cleared all the rubble after five days of digging. Once the layer under the rubble was excavated, a huge quantity of items were uncovered, including the huge key shown below. Keys are a fairly common find on medieval sites, some even larger than this one. This one was found
in-situ with a hinge (also visible in the photo) and a large amount of bone, suggesting it is part of a rubbish heap left behind when scavengers ripped out a flagged floor, pieces of which they left, inside the tower.
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| A key found in Trench I, Landsjö. |
We also found this copper-alloy dress ornament in the shape of a rose. This probably would have been sewn onto a man's tunic or onto a woman's dress. We found several other personal items as well (not pictured) including part of a comb and a knight's spur.
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| A copper-alloy rose. |
Even though the dig is over, I still have some posts to put up about it in the future.
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