Reports

Åtoftegård 2020

Three large blades, so called blade-sickles, and a midfragment of such a blade were analysed for use wear. They have been excavated in a Bronze Age site of Åtoftegård (MNS50180) in North Zealand in Denmark. Our aim was to define and discern wear from harvest of different crops wild or domesticated. In the report we present a brief history of research and latest results from experimental studies and compare the traces of wear found on the four pieces from Åtoftegård. The analysis shows the four sickles to be used for harvest in different environments and for different tasks. The possible contact materials are reeds or similar plants, ripe and not completely ripe cereals or similar plants. The environment of the harvested plants was dusty or sandy in two cases and clean in two cases. Also the three whole blades seem to have been hafted in handles covering completely one of the edges and their proximal ends

Lokva, Haram K, Möre og Romsdal 2018

Technological and use wear analysis of a cache with flaked rock crystal