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.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin and chatelaine rod, copper alloy.
Pin and chatelaine rod, copper alloy. These small pins were probably used to attach chains that decorated headdresses (Mägi, 2002, 103). They have been found in stone graves with cremations as well as in inhumations that appeared around 1200 AD. Chatelaine rods were mostly used in belt decorations, but similar spirals were also used in various neck ornaments and headdresses (e.g. Vaska, 2019, 157, Pl 148).
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.) Tallinn.
Vaska, B. 2019. Rotas un ornaments Latvijā no bronzas laikmeta līdz 13. gadsimtam. Latvijas Nacionālais vēstures muzejs. Rīga.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Viltina
Pin shaft? Copper alloy.
Pin shaft, iron. According to the loop shape from the end of the 12th century or from the 13th century. A copper alloy head was most likely fixed to the shaft.
