Our database is free to use for all history and archaeology enthusiasts. If you use our database, please do not forget to cite correctly:
Mägi, Marika; Palm, Piia Sandra. Archaeological Artefacts of Saaremaa. Foundation Osiliana / Tallinn University. Accessed: date.
The Osiliana Archaeological Database presents artefacts from Saaremaa and the surrounding small islands.
The database contains mainly Iron Age and Medieval finds that can be classified.
Undated metal or other pieces were generally excluded from the database.
Ceramics are represented by isolated examples.
The database is a work in progress and is constantly being updated.
Nail, iron.
Iron hook.
E-type spearhead, fragment of the blade.


E-type spearhead, fragment of the blade.
Literature:
Pedersen, A. 2014. Dead Warriors in Living Memory. A Study of Weapon and Equestrian Burials in Viking-Age Denmark, AD 800-1000. – National Museums Studies in Archaeology and History, Vol. 20: 1. Copenhagen, 92-93.
The fragment of a coin. Samanid dynasty, the town of as-Šaš-i (?) 0.38 g.


The fragment of a coin. Samanid dynasty, the town of as-Šaš-i (?) 0.38 g.
Boat rivet, iron.
Spheric weight, iron + bronze. Faces marked with line formed of small rings.



Spheric weight, iron + bronze. Faces marked with line formed of small rings. Probably from the end of the 10th or from the 11th. century (Berga 2017).
Literature:
Berga, T. 2017. The distribution and chronology of traiding equipment in present-day Latvia in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. – Archaeologia Baltica, 24, 59-77.
Iron rivet,
Coin, from the town of Erfurt, Germany. 0.82 grams. From the years between 1047 to 1075.


Coin, from the town of Erfurt, Germany. 0.82 grams. From the years between 1047 to 1075.


Weight (?), cylindrical, lead. In Latvia, such weights are dated to the period from the late 10th to the late 13th century (Berga 2017).
Literature:
Berga, T. 2017. The distribution and chronology of traiding equipment in present-day Latvia in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. – Archaeologia Baltica, 24, 59-77.
The negative value refers to time Before Christ.