Database
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; Niinesalu-Moon, Maris; Rannaäär, Karin; Leiman, Lisanna Lee. 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.
Viltina
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy.
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy. The knife sheath is decorated with bronze plating and has a special extension. Similar, but narrower knife sheaths were widespread in Livic areas in Latvia (Spirģis 2008, 192–194). Knife sheaths with extension are in Saaremaa found mainly in early-13th-century female inhumation graves, but seldom also in stone graves (Randvere kalme, Mägi 2002, Pl. 40: 1). The Saaremaa-type knife sheaths were probably used from thelate 12th century to the mid-13th century.
Mägi, M. 2002. At the Crossroads of Space and Time. Graves, Changing Society and Ideology on Saaremaa (Ösel), 9th–13th centuries AD. (CCC papers, 6.) Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Tallinn / Gotland University College, Centre for Baltic Studies, Gotland.
Spirģis, R. 2008. Bruņrupuču saktas ar krūšu važiņrotām un lībiešu kultūras attīstība Daugavas lejtecē 10.–13. gadsimtā. Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Apgāds, Rīga.
Viltina
The tip of a knife sheath, copper alloy.
Viltina
The tip of a knife sheath, copper alloy.
Viltina
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy.
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy. Bronze plating fragment from a vertical knife sheath.
Mägi, M. 2002. At the Crossroads of Space and Time. Graves, Changing Society and Ideology on Saaremaa (Ösel), 9th–13th centuries AD. (CCC papers, 6.) Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Tallinn / Gotland University College, Centre for Baltic Studies, Gotland.
Spirģis, R. 2008. Bruņrupuču saktas ar krūšu važiņrotām un lībiešu kultūras attīstība Daugavas lejtecē 10.–13. gadsimtā. Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Apgāds, Rīga.
Viltina
The tip of a knife sheath, copper alloy.
Viltina
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy.
Knife sheath plating fragment, copper alloy. Bronze plating fragment from a vertical knife sheath.
