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!
Mullutu
Penannular brooch with poppy-shaped terminals, bronze.
Penannular brooch with poppy-shaped terminals, bronze.
Read more:
Mägi, M. (2002). At the Crossroads of Space and Time. Graves, Changing Society and Ideology on Saaremaa (Ösel), 9th–13th centuries AD. Tallinn: Ajaloo Instituut, Tallinn/Center of Baltic Studies, Gotland, p. 100-101. Read the book: here. Look at the drawings of the archaeological excavations: here.
Mullutu
Bronze box-shaped brooch with openwork ornament in Nordic Animal style. Two similar brooches have been found in Birka graves in Sweden.
Photos: Jaana Ratas.
Box-shaped brooch with openwork ornament in Nordic Animal style, bronze. Two similar brooches have been found in Birka graves in Sweden.
Read more:
Arbman, H. 1943. Birka I. Die Gräber. Text. Stockholm, Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 117-118, 467-468.
Mullutu
Finger-ring with thickening middle part, bronze.
Photo: Jaana Ratas.
Finger-ring with thickening middle part, bronze.
Mullutu
Finger-ring with middle shield, bronze.
Finger-ring with middle shield, bronze.
Read more:
Valk, H.; Ratas, J. & Laul, S. 2014. Siksälä kalme, II. Matuste ja leidude kataloog. Tartu.
Mullutu
Fragment of a flat crossbow-shaped brooch, bronze. Such brooches were widespread in Finnish, Estonian and Latvian coastal areas.
Photo: Jaana Ratas.
Fragment of a flat crossbow-shaped brooch, bronze. Such brooches were widespread in Finnish, Estonian and Latvian coastal areas.
Read more:
Mägi, M. (2020). Before the hill fort of Valjala was built. Landing places and graves along the Lõve River in Saaremaa. Arheoloogilised välitööd Eestis = Archeological fieldwork in Estonia, 2019, 69−78. Read the article: here.
Mägi, M. 2018. In Austrvegr: The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea. (The Northern World, Volume: 84). Brill; Leiden, 132-135.
Mullutu
Penannular brooch with blossom-shaped terminals, bronze.
Photo: Jaana Ratas.
Penannular brooch with blossom-shaped terminals, bronze.
Read more:
Valk, H.; Ratas, J. & Laul, S. 2014. Siksälä kalme, II. Matuste ja leidude kataloog. Tartu, 64, 157, 188, 217.
Mullutu
Penannular brooch with irregularly faceted small terminals, bronze.
Penannular brooch with irregularly faceted small terminals, bronze.
Read more:
Pauts, H. 1997. Pahaga hoburaudsõled Eestis. (Töid ajaloo alalt, I.) Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, Tallinn, 79-115.
Mullutu
Pendant, bronze. Similar ones have been found in Couronia and Semigallia.
Pendant, bronze. Similar ones have been found in Couronia and Semigallia.
Read more:
The Semigallians = Griciuvienė, E. (prepared by) Žiemgaliai. Baltų archeologijos paroda. Katalogas. The Semigallians. Baltic Archaeological Exhibition. Catalogue. Lietuvos nacionalis muziejus, Latvijas Vēstures muzejs, Vilnius – Riga, 114.
Square belt mount, bronze.
