An archeological dig inwards Tõnismäe. Source: Siim Lõvi/ERR
Last year, Estonia's largest Viking sword fragments honour was unearthed on the country's northern coast. Burial artefacts establish inwards the same expanse this twelvemonth advise that the swords were used past times local warriors from the ancient county of Rävala.
Archeologist too keeper of the numismatic collection of the Tallinn University Archeological Research Collection Mauri Kiudsoo told BNS that the burial site discovered this twelvemonth lied but a few dozen meters from end year's honour too that both the grave too the sword honour appointment dorsum to the tenth century. "These finds are linked," Kiudsoo said. "The brooch nosotros establish confirms the hypothesis that the swords were used past times local warriors from the ancient county of Rävala."
Archeologists discovered an in-ground burial site on the due north Estonian coast, 1 time the territory of the ancient county of Rävala, before this year. While the grave had been plowed over, archeologists came across fragments of spearheads, bridles, scythes too single-edged fighting knives. The site besides revealed a crossbow-shaped brooch alongside heads modeled afterward a poppy capsule that had been disfigured inwards a burn downwards too a brace of jump scissors.
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