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. 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.
Mullutu
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.
Mullutu
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.
Mullutu
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.
First photo: Jaana Ratas.
Post-Abbasid dynasty coin, 2.55 g.
Mullutu
Fragment of a coin. Samanid dynasty, 0.51 grams.
Fragment of a coin. Samanid dynasty, 0.51 grams.
Octagonal weight, iron+bronze. Such weights can mainly be dated to 850-1000 AD.
Literature:
Gustin, I. 2004. Mellan gåva och marknad. Handel, tillit och materiell Kultur under vikingatid. – Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology, 34. Malmö, Almqvist & Wiksell, 100-107.
Potsherd.
Mullutu
Penannular brooch with rolled terminals, bronze.
First photo: Jaana Ratas.
Penannular brooch with rolled terminals, bronze.
Literature:
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. Read the book: here. Look at the drawings of the archaeological excavations: here.
Mägi-Lõugas, M. 1994. Estonian Viking-Age Penannular Brooches and Ornament. (EST: Eesti viikingiaegsed hoburaudsõled ja nende ornament.) – Eesti TA Toim. Humanitaar- ja Sotsiaalteadused 43, 4 (465-484). Read the ENG conclusion (p. 483-483): here.
Mullutu
Boat rivet, iron.
