Pole Arm from Underwater Excavation on the Relics of a Bridge at the Slavic Defensive Settlement at Olsborg in Plön, on the Großer Plöner See Lake, Northern Germany Cover Image

Broń drzewcowa z badań podwodnych na reliktach mostu przy słowiańskim osiedlu obronnym w Olsborgu w Plön, na jeziorze Großer Plöner See, w północnych Niemczech
Pole Arm from Underwater Excavation on the Relics of a Bridge at the Slavic Defensive Settlement at Olsborg in Plön, on the Großer Plöner See Lake, Northern Germany

Author(s): Gerard Wilke
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Military history, Middle Ages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: spearheads; Bridges; Early Middle Ages; Großer Plöner See; northern Germany

Summary/Abstract: Großer Plöner See is located between Kiel and Lübeck, in the central part of the socalled Holstein Switzerland. The island hillfort of Plune (Olsborg) appears for the first time in the source information of the chronicler Adam Bremen in 1070. At the Olsborg hillfort island 15 spearheads and javelins were discovered excavated from a small area of investigated bridge debris. This assemblage falls, in the light of dendrochronological research, between the late 10th and late 11th centuries. However, taking into account the information from written sources about the German conquest of Vagria and the destruction of the hillfort in 1138–1142, it can be presumed that also in those years some of the pole arm discovered there may have been lost in the area of the bridge.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 395-420
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish