Main PageThe purpose of this page is to draw the attention to some of the archaeological finds and artefacts in Sweden of special importance to the study of medieval arms & armour. Links and further information will be added.
A well preserved (?) rolled up mail shirt found near the site of the battle of Kungslena (1208). The shirt has not been unrolled (Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, SHM 2677).
24 more or less well preserved coat-of-plates recovered from the mass graves of the battle of Visby (1361), the site of a Danish victory over a Gotlandic army. The most important of these finds are now kept in the Museum of National Antiquities (Statens Historiska Museum).
About 185 mail coifs recovered from the same mass graves. A paper on the construction of these coifs, by Tommy Hellman, "Ringbrynjehuvor från massgravarna vid Korsbetningen", is now available (text in Swedish with an English summary).
A lamellar armour converted into a coat of plates recovered from the same mass graves.
A wide-brimmed kettle-hat made of several sections. It was found at Hof, Vestfold, in Norway in 1898 (SHM 23741).
A larger than life wooden sculpture group of St. George and the Dragon (1489) by Bernt Notke in Storkyrkan, Stockholm.
This page was last updated
2007-03-05
