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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Valjala hillfort

Socketed crossbow-head, iron.

Century:
13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:338

Valjala hillfort

Bone toggle.

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:412

Valjala hillfort

Tooth pendant.

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:446

Valjala hillfort

Bronze artefact, prpbably part of a buckle.

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:638

Valjala hillfort

Pot rim, hand-made ceramic. Similar pots have been found e g in Varbola, Pöide, or Soontagana hill-forts.

Century:
12-14

Discovery code:
AI 4300:677

Valjala hillfort

Bronze artefact, pendant (?).

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:721

Valjala hillfort

Bead.

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:728

Valjala hillfort

Potsherd of a pot wall, hand-made ceramic, decorated with rhombic checker. Pots with very similar decoration have been found e g at Rahu stone grave near Valjala, or at Soontagana hill-fort in West-Estonia. Rhombic checker decoration on ceramic was characteristic for Saaremaa, West- and NW-Estonia, the variant as here mainly for Saaremaa.

Century:
11-12

Discovery code:
AI 4300:800

Valjala hillfort

Big spiral, perhaps finger-ring, bronze.

Century:
12-13

Discovery code:
AI 4300:817

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