Gold-decorated iron lances found at a spring in Boeslunde have been included in the Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture's Top 10 of the museums' most significant archaeological finds and discoveries in 2025.
Every year, the Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture publishes a Top 10, and to be included in this list, according to the agency: 'a condition is that the find has emerged from an archaeological excavation or is a new discovery, for example based on new scientific results from the past year. At the same time, it must be a find that adds significant new knowledge to archaeology and our knowledge of the past'.
And it can be found at Boeslunde. The Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture justifies the Top 10 ranking: 'At Boeslunde in southwestern Zealand, three impressive, gold-decorated iron lances from the Bronze Age were found, which constitute the oldest certain iron find in Denmark, and thus moves the time of the introduction of iron significantly earlier than previously assumed.'
The excavation located a spring where previous gold finds (including gold spirals) had been deposited, and when the archaeologists dug into the spring mound, they found three iron lances, two of which were decorated with gold.
One of the gold-decorated lances will be on display at Slagelse Museum from February 7, where you can see it up close. Read more about the exhibition Sacrifices and Gold here.
Further information: Museum curator Lone Claudi-Hansen, Museum West Zealand, lch@vestmuseum.dk
Tel. 25528383.
