Hjortspring boat
Categories: Ship types | European archaeology | History of the Germanic peoples | Pre-Roman Iron Age
The Hjortspring boat is a ship from the Pre-Roman Iron Age that was excavated in 1921–1922 in Hjortspring Mose at Als in Sønderjylland.
It was 13m long and 2 m wide wooden boat with space for a crew of 22–23 men. I contained a great many weapons, such as 131 shields of the Celtic type, 33 beautifully crafted shieldbosses, 138 spearheads of iron, 10 iron swords, and the remains of 20–24 mailcoats.
The boat is the oldest find of a wooden plank ship in Scandinavia and its closest parallels are the thousands of petroglyph images of Nordic Bronze Age ships.
It was probably a war sacrifice.
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