Database

The Osiliana archaeological database brings together artefacts from Saaremaa and the surrounding small islands.

Most of Saaremaa’s archaeological finds are held in the collection of the Saaremaa Museum and in the Tallinn University Research Collection.

We are gradually adding more and more finds and hope that it will become a useful tool for all history and archaeology enthusiasts!

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Ure

Artefact fragment, iron. Flat rod with a returnable clamp made of wide iron sheet.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:57

Ure

Half head of a shepherd-crook-headed pin (?), iron. Flat cross-section, the diameter of the head is 3,2 cm. Most likely the other half of SM10862:56.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:60

Ure

Arrowhead (?), iron. The tip of the blade is flat, but the neck has a square cross-section (side of the square is 6-7 mm) and the tip appears to be pointed.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:63

Ure

Bronze sheet, rolled together. Ends slightly in between each other and there is a thin line at one end.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:64

Ure

Socketed axe, iron. With a narrow blade. The height is 11 cm, the diameter of the handle is around 2 cm. Socketed axes were during a long period widespread in Finland, the Eastern Baltic and Northwestern Russia. 93 socketed axes of the same type as in Ure have been found in the Kohtla deposit, North-Estonia, and dated to the 1st -4th century AD.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:65

Ure

Bracelet, bronze. Stretched loose, shaped like a band, the cross-section is flat and curvy. The width is even and there are 5-6 thin transverse lines at both ends. Bracelets of this type were commin the Roman Iron Age Saaremaa and surroundings.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:66

Ure

Razor fragment, iron. Part of the tang and the blade. The tang has flat cross-section. Similar knives have been found in North Estonian 3rd-5th-century graves.

Century:
3-5

Discovery code:
SM 10862:67