Papers by Sandie Holst
Fornvännen 116, 2021
In the flood of metal artefacts received by the National Museum of Denmark due to private metal d... more In the flood of metal artefacts received by the National Museum of Denmark due to private metal detecting, some stand out more than others due to their enigmatic appearance. One such item is a circular domed object of silver, almost 3 cm in diameter, found 2018 in Tune, south of Copenhagen. Although damaged, the artefact is distinguished by its enticing decorations with bird-like creatures. It is not entirely clear what the function of this stud may have been, or its date, but here we offer some suggestions.
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Glimt fra vikingetiden, 2020
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Excavating Nydam Archaeology, Palaeoecology and Preservation The National Museum’s Research Project 1989‑99, 2020
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Norwegian Archaeological Review, 2019
The National Museum of Denmark and the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen ha... more The National Museum of Denmark and the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen have collaborated on a project investigating burial mounds near early Medieval churches. The aim was to identify a possible continuity in cult sites across the shift to Christianity in the late Viking Age. Charcoal samples from 18 mounds were radiocarbon dated but the results showed they were far older than expected. Control dating undertaken on burial mounds of known age confirmed that charcoal in the mound fill can at least be up to 3000 years older than the mound itself. As charcoal can survive in the surface soil layer for millennia, in spite of ploughing, bioturbation and frost, it may also dominate the charcoal pool of the grass or heather turfs used in the mound construction. Therefore, the article concludes, charcoal cannot be used to securely date archaeological features built with turfs and it is important to be aware of the possible presence of very old charcoal when selecting material for dating archaeological features, even those which otherwise would be judged unaffected by material from earlier archaeological periods.
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Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark , 2018
Nærmer man sig det arkæologiske museum i Frankfurt, mødes man af synet af en smuk gammel klosterb... more Nærmer man sig det arkæologiske museum i Frankfurt, mødes man af synet af en smuk gammel klosterbygning opført af Karmeliterordenen.
Selve klosteret er fra ca. 1240, og opførelsen af dets gotiske kirke startede i 1270. Det monumentale og smukke kirkeskib er naturligvis museets hjerte, og det var her, Archäologisches Museum i Frankfurt og Nationalmuseet i februar 2017 åbnede udstillingen Odin, Thor und Freyja – Skandinavische Kultplätze des 1. Jahrtausends n. Chr. und das Frankenreich finansieret af Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Kulturfond Frankfurt RheinMain og Kulturdezernat Frankfurt
am Main. Et tema i udstillingen handlede om samspillet mellem de hedenske danere i nord og de kristne frankere i syd i perioden omkring
800-tallet. I begge samfund satte religiøse forestillinger og rituelle handlinger i høj grad de politiske dagsordener, og det er tydeligt, hvordan
udvekslinger mellem de to samfund har været en væsentlig faktor i magtens udformning og fysiske fremtræden. Ud fra det perspektivdykker
denne artikel ned i en håndfuld af de fortællinger, der blev fremhævet i tilknytning til de udstillede genstande.
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Vikings. Guerreiros do mar / Warriors from the sea, 2017
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Since the mid 1990s the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland have conducte... more ABSTRACT
Since the mid 1990s the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland have conducted excavations on two royal residential complexes from late Germanic Iron Age and Viking Age. During the excavations a range of samples were collected for macrofossil analysis. In two of these samples two seeds of vine grapes dated to the late Germanic Iron Age and the Viking Age were discovered. So far they are the oldest grape seeds discovered in the present Danish area.
One of the seeds was chosen for strontium isotope analysis in order to determine the provenance of the grape. The strontium isotopic composition of the grape seed yielded a 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.71091 (±0.00004; 2σ) which falls within Denmark’s strontium isotopic baseline range indicating that the seed could be of local origin.
Archaeological and historical evidence seem to point to that people in the Iron and Viking Age knew and consumed wine and even had access to gain potential know-how related to wine production. Hence, even though it is not possible to determine whether the two seeds found at Tissø are a result of either grape consumption (fresh or dried) or used for wine production, these finds point to that grapes and probably wine were products consumed by the elite at Tissø.
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Egon Wamers (hrsg.) 2017: Odin, Thor and Freya - Scandinavian Cult Sites of the 1st Millenium AD and the Frankish Realm. Introduction in Exhibition Catalogue
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When three-to-five lime kilns dated to the ninth century and thus to the Viking Era were found in... more When three-to-five lime kilns dated to the ninth century and thus to the Viking Era were found in the elite complex at Tissø, western Zealand in 2013 (fig.1), it came as a great surprise to the excavation team. The technology has always been dated from the Early Post-Viking Middle Ages in the Danish context, so many issues were raised by the find. Among other things, an extensive effort was begun to find parallels in the rest of Europe, while issues were raised about raw materials, the role of the smith and rituals in connection with the building of the large residences. In a close cross-disciplinary collaboration between two of the museum’s areas of expertise it now became possible to answer questions that would probably otherwise have remained open – for example how the normally rust-red natural travertine can lead to a fine white result (figs. 5 & 6). Similarly it is clear after the work on the material that the technology came to the Scandinavian area from Germany, where there are many direct parallels to our kilns. Furthermore, the find has meant that today we know much more about some of the processes that were set in motion when, for example, impressive halls were built in antiquity, while at the same time the investigation indicates that the production and use of whitewash was reserved for aristocratic circles at this time in Scandinavia, and was thus not widespread.
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In connection with investigations of the aristocratic residence at Tissø from the Viking Age, the... more In connection with investigations of the aristocratic residence at Tissø from the Viking Age, the earliest evidence so far of lime burning in Denmark has been excavated. The excavations unearthed traces of up to five lime kilns which were subsequently dated to the end of the ninth century. This corresponds well with the dating of the erection of the hall in the third construction phase at Fugledegård. Finds of mud-and-wattle with whitewashing show that the lime was used to whitewash the halls at Tissø in both the Germanic Iron Age and the Viking Age. Analyses of lime from the lime kilns and the whitewashed mud-and-wattle demonstrate that the raw material for the lime burning was mainly travertine deposited in spring water, but that bryozoan limestone was also used. The lime kilns were just under 2 m in diameter with stone-built edges, and there are indications that the superstructure may have been built up with clay. This resembles the corresponding parallelfinds from the Iron Age in the German area.
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Siden 2010 har museets tværvidenskabelige forskningsprojekt ”Førkristne kultpladser” arbejdet på... more Siden 2010 har museets tværvidenskabelige forskningsprojekt ”Førkristne kultpladser” arbejdet på at identificere og tolke en række førkristne, rituelle pladser fra det 1. årtusinde e.Kr. i Danmark. Her præsenteres en række af de foreløbige resultater. Projektet er finansieret af A.P. Møller & Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal. Udgravningerne er støttet af Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, og blev foretaget i samarbejde med Kalundborg Museum. En blandt flere nye erkendelser er, at kulten var knyttet til faste steder ved periodens store residenser, hvor stormændene antagelig også rådede for kultens udførelse i forbindelse med større samlinger af befolkningen.
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Exhibition Catalogue by Sandie Holst
Special exhibition at Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt - 11/2 - 6/6 2017
Curated by: M.A. Sandi... more Special exhibition at Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt - 11/2 - 6/6 2017
Curated by: M.A. Sandie Holst, Dr. Kathrin Meents & Prof. Dr. Egon Wamers - A collaboration between the National Museum of Denmark and Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt.
Authors (catalogue):
Lars Jørgensen
Sofie Laurine Albris
Anna S. Beck
Josefine Franck Bican
Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen
Holger Grewe
Sandie Holst
Susanne Klingenberg
Palle Østergaard Sørensen
Egon Wamers
Odin, Thor and Freya are among the best-known gods of the pagan North. They were responsible for war, order and fertility.
Thanks to extensive excavations in Scandinavia over the past years, we have now gained a much better understanding of religious Buildings but also cultic and sacrificial practices. Elite residences had temples and sacred areas where large seasonal communal sacrifices were performed. Lordship and cultic practices were thus closely intertwined.
The exhibition presents some of the exciting results derived through the research project Pre-Christian Cult Sites at the National Museum of Denmark (led by ph.d., research professor, Lars Jørgensen) as well as the relationship between North and South in the first Millenium AD.
The exhibition and the catalogue are bilingual (German/English).
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Master of Arts Thesis summary
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For free pdf, follow link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXDCWIJYKSS8DGBYEERC/full?target=10.1080/00293652.2019.1670250
Selve klosteret er fra ca. 1240, og opførelsen af dets gotiske kirke startede i 1270. Det monumentale og smukke kirkeskib er naturligvis museets hjerte, og det var her, Archäologisches Museum i Frankfurt og Nationalmuseet i februar 2017 åbnede udstillingen Odin, Thor und Freyja – Skandinavische Kultplätze des 1. Jahrtausends n. Chr. und das Frankenreich finansieret af Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Kulturfond Frankfurt RheinMain og Kulturdezernat Frankfurt
am Main. Et tema i udstillingen handlede om samspillet mellem de hedenske danere i nord og de kristne frankere i syd i perioden omkring
800-tallet. I begge samfund satte religiøse forestillinger og rituelle handlinger i høj grad de politiske dagsordener, og det er tydeligt, hvordan
udvekslinger mellem de to samfund har været en væsentlig faktor i magtens udformning og fysiske fremtræden. Ud fra det perspektivdykker
denne artikel ned i en håndfuld af de fortællinger, der blev fremhævet i tilknytning til de udstillede genstande.
Since the mid 1990s the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland have conducted excavations on two royal residential complexes from late Germanic Iron Age and Viking Age. During the excavations a range of samples were collected for macrofossil analysis. In two of these samples two seeds of vine grapes dated to the late Germanic Iron Age and the Viking Age were discovered. So far they are the oldest grape seeds discovered in the present Danish area.
One of the seeds was chosen for strontium isotope analysis in order to determine the provenance of the grape. The strontium isotopic composition of the grape seed yielded a 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.71091 (±0.00004; 2σ) which falls within Denmark’s strontium isotopic baseline range indicating that the seed could be of local origin.
Archaeological and historical evidence seem to point to that people in the Iron and Viking Age knew and consumed wine and even had access to gain potential know-how related to wine production. Hence, even though it is not possible to determine whether the two seeds found at Tissø are a result of either grape consumption (fresh or dried) or used for wine production, these finds point to that grapes and probably wine were products consumed by the elite at Tissø.
Exhibition Catalogue by Sandie Holst
Curated by: M.A. Sandie Holst, Dr. Kathrin Meents & Prof. Dr. Egon Wamers - A collaboration between the National Museum of Denmark and Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt.
Authors (catalogue):
Lars Jørgensen
Sofie Laurine Albris
Anna S. Beck
Josefine Franck Bican
Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen
Holger Grewe
Sandie Holst
Susanne Klingenberg
Palle Østergaard Sørensen
Egon Wamers
Odin, Thor and Freya are among the best-known gods of the pagan North. They were responsible for war, order and fertility.
Thanks to extensive excavations in Scandinavia over the past years, we have now gained a much better understanding of religious Buildings but also cultic and sacrificial practices. Elite residences had temples and sacred areas where large seasonal communal sacrifices were performed. Lordship and cultic practices were thus closely intertwined.
The exhibition presents some of the exciting results derived through the research project Pre-Christian Cult Sites at the National Museum of Denmark (led by ph.d., research professor, Lars Jørgensen) as well as the relationship between North and South in the first Millenium AD.
The exhibition and the catalogue are bilingual (German/English).
Thesis Chapters by Sandie Holst
Exhibition by Sandie Holst
Books by Sandie Holst
For free pdf, follow link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXDCWIJYKSS8DGBYEERC/full?target=10.1080/00293652.2019.1670250
Selve klosteret er fra ca. 1240, og opførelsen af dets gotiske kirke startede i 1270. Det monumentale og smukke kirkeskib er naturligvis museets hjerte, og det var her, Archäologisches Museum i Frankfurt og Nationalmuseet i februar 2017 åbnede udstillingen Odin, Thor und Freyja – Skandinavische Kultplätze des 1. Jahrtausends n. Chr. und das Frankenreich finansieret af Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Kulturfond Frankfurt RheinMain og Kulturdezernat Frankfurt
am Main. Et tema i udstillingen handlede om samspillet mellem de hedenske danere i nord og de kristne frankere i syd i perioden omkring
800-tallet. I begge samfund satte religiøse forestillinger og rituelle handlinger i høj grad de politiske dagsordener, og det er tydeligt, hvordan
udvekslinger mellem de to samfund har været en væsentlig faktor i magtens udformning og fysiske fremtræden. Ud fra det perspektivdykker
denne artikel ned i en håndfuld af de fortællinger, der blev fremhævet i tilknytning til de udstillede genstande.
Since the mid 1990s the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland have conducted excavations on two royal residential complexes from late Germanic Iron Age and Viking Age. During the excavations a range of samples were collected for macrofossil analysis. In two of these samples two seeds of vine grapes dated to the late Germanic Iron Age and the Viking Age were discovered. So far they are the oldest grape seeds discovered in the present Danish area.
One of the seeds was chosen for strontium isotope analysis in order to determine the provenance of the grape. The strontium isotopic composition of the grape seed yielded a 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.71091 (±0.00004; 2σ) which falls within Denmark’s strontium isotopic baseline range indicating that the seed could be of local origin.
Archaeological and historical evidence seem to point to that people in the Iron and Viking Age knew and consumed wine and even had access to gain potential know-how related to wine production. Hence, even though it is not possible to determine whether the two seeds found at Tissø are a result of either grape consumption (fresh or dried) or used for wine production, these finds point to that grapes and probably wine were products consumed by the elite at Tissø.
Curated by: M.A. Sandie Holst, Dr. Kathrin Meents & Prof. Dr. Egon Wamers - A collaboration between the National Museum of Denmark and Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt.
Authors (catalogue):
Lars Jørgensen
Sofie Laurine Albris
Anna S. Beck
Josefine Franck Bican
Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen
Holger Grewe
Sandie Holst
Susanne Klingenberg
Palle Østergaard Sørensen
Egon Wamers
Odin, Thor and Freya are among the best-known gods of the pagan North. They were responsible for war, order and fertility.
Thanks to extensive excavations in Scandinavia over the past years, we have now gained a much better understanding of religious Buildings but also cultic and sacrificial practices. Elite residences had temples and sacred areas where large seasonal communal sacrifices were performed. Lordship and cultic practices were thus closely intertwined.
The exhibition presents some of the exciting results derived through the research project Pre-Christian Cult Sites at the National Museum of Denmark (led by ph.d., research professor, Lars Jørgensen) as well as the relationship between North and South in the first Millenium AD.
The exhibition and the catalogue are bilingual (German/English).