Enjoying life with a glas of wine and salmon on the #neolithic site of Saint-Martin-de-Corléans, Aosta. Invited by the #MegaMuseo we had a very privilged visit with the #ISA2026Torino.
Heide Wrobel Nørgaard
@heidewnoergaard.bsky.social
Goldsmith and PhD archaeologist who works with traditional archaeological methods and archaeometallurgy to understand the technologies of the past and their development.
#FindsFriday a late #Bronzeage #sword from Kostryzyn with a very interesting crown-like ribbon around the hilt. I know this crown shaped pattern from early #ironage neckrings in Denmagk, but this sword is much earlier.
Oh yes, this is with no doubt a masterpiece! When you are interested where it was made and if there are others from the same workshop here is an educated guess... #bronzeage www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
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A Bronze Age ‘belt plate’ which was discovered in 1879 when cutting peat at Langstrup, near Asminderød in North Zealand. Now part of the collections at The National Museum of Denmark. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Denmark
Lost Bronze Age Mines Unearthed in Spain Transform Bronze Age History #Science #Archaeology #Other #BronzeAge #Spain https://scitechdaily.com/lost-bronze-age-mines-unearthed-in-spain-transform-bronze-age-history/
Lost Bronze Age Mines Unearthed in Spain Transform Bronze Age History
New Spanish mine discoveries reveal large-scale Bronze Age metal networks.
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I often find myself in situations where I'm really glad I had such a long and varied #education. Some of the habits from my apprenticeship as #goldsmith still are part of my movements. I don't think about holding my little finger as a stabiliser for the drill; I just do it. #archaeology #bronzeage
It was exciting to present the #research behind the picture that I entered into the competition! The real fascination of metallography 🧪 only becomes apparent when you see the original artefact. #archaeology 🏺 #bronzeage
A big thank you to @roepstorff.bsky.social and @lholm.bsky.social for hosting the DNRF photo exhibition at @aiasdk.bsky.social. And thanks to the present researchers for sharing such inspiring insights into their images💡 📸 Stay tuned for more information about this year’s DNRF Photo Competition👀
I had the most incredible #time-travelling experience working in the storage facilities at the National Museum in #Stettin. I always imagined #archaeologists 🏺 would spend a lot of time in mysterious, dusty rooms – at least, that's what Indiana Jones taught us, right? Here, it is true! #Bronzeage
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Super exciting!
The next episode of #DiggingForBritain is tonight and features Antiquity authors Benjamin W. Roberts & R. Alan Williams on their excavations of the Bronze Age tin trade at St. Michael's Mount! Can't wait? They wrote on their findings in an #AntiquityBlog 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Would you like to know why I take #pictures of #ancient #metal objects and what makes the bronze medal picture from the 2025 DNRF🧪 #photocompetition so special? Mark 20 February in your calendar. Here, I will give a short talk in Aarhus on the #craft secrets revealed by my picture. #bronzeage
Fascinating Images: DNRF Photo exhibition at AIAS
Explore the winners of the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) Photo Competition 2025 and hear Aarhus University researchers present their image and research in short 3-minute talks.
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Interview with my dear colleague Daniel Berger about our latest #article on metal #provenance studies of Sardinian #Bronzeage figurines. 🧪🏺
New archaeological analysis of the bronzetti figurines of Sardinia has changed the picture of copper in the Bronze Age: The Nuragic people who lived on the island may have traded the metal as far as Scandinavia. archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2026/artifacts/sardinian-bronze-figurines/
My colleagues, Anna Tornberg and Kristian Brink, invited me to #Lund to see a #Bronzeage belt plate. They didn't just ask me to come and look at it. My specialty is not looking at #things, but imagining how they were #crafted while spending hours examining them. And this we did! 🧪🏺 #archaeology
Enjoying the latest series of #DiggingForBritain? Antiquity authors appear in an upcoming episode, exploring the Bronze Age tin trade that connected Britain to the East Mediterranean! They wrote about it in the latest #AntiquityBlog, available to read 🆓 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... 🏺
Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age
Benjamin W. Roberts and R. Alan Williams discuss their archaeological investigations at St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, long thought to have been Ictis, the tin trading island described by Pytheas the Greek in c. 320 BC in the earliest written account of Britain.
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🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨
In #Copenhagen. This time, I focused on the #lures and #shields! Before the #Viksø #helmets can #gopublic, there is one issue that needs to be resolved. I have been working on describing the #crafting of the helmets when I noticed something new that I had not paid attention to before. #bronzeage
With a group of female researchers, all alumni of the Academy of Science Communication #RoyalDanishAcademyofSciences, I visited the Danish no.1 Radio programme #P1. We were invited to say hi and pitch our research to get more female experts in radio! #expert in #archaeoligy #bronzeage #metals #craft
It is very good for research when pictures taken during investigations for scientific reasons are seen as special. 🧪 While trying to understand how 3,500-year-old jewellery was made, a beautiful picture came to life. #archaeology #bronzeage #art #moesgaard
👀What may appear to be an abstract painting is actually a microscopic view of a bronze surface, which provides valuable insights into the craftsmanship, technology, and society of the Bronze Age. @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social won third place in the DNRF Photo Competition.📸👇 dg.dk/en/heide-wro...
Yeah! Congrats to all the other scientists with their great pictures I have seen today!
Congratulations @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social !
What a day! 3rd place in the science foto competition with a metallography of a #Bronzeage beltplate and an invitation to the @dg.dk annual meeting. Uahhh
One of my metallographies of #Bronzeage artefacts also impressed a jury panel. Third place in the Danish National Research Foundation's photo competition.
Hun læser fortiden i krystallerne - Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Marie Wrobel har vundet tredjepladsen i DG's fotokonkurrence 2025 med et foto, der kan fortælle os en hel del om håndværk, teknologi og samfund i bronzealderen.
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Need to share this...the #nuraghe from Santa Cristina on #Sardinia dating some 3200 years ago. A #Bronzeage monument of emense beauty. #archaeology 🏺
These corner stones of the #Bronzeage wall structure around the #settlement at Santa Cristina on Sardinia are part of the #nuraghe culture and date to 1000isch BC. Here pictured for #standingstonesunday. 🏺
I am on Sardinia looking for #Bronzeage connection between the #nuraghe culture and the #Nordic Bronze Age. Might it be in #Nuoro I can find evidence? This guy looks familiar... #archaeology 🏺 #MoesgaardMuseum
When the assumed 20 cm of colluvium (?) turned out to be 75 cm! To understand the #environmental changes at the #sacredwell in Matzanni, #Sardinia, we dug test pits 🏺– this one was deep! #archaeology #Bronzeage #ironage #moesgaard #augustinusfoundation
On #FindsFriday I present a question! This #metallography of a late iron age #slag has an inclusion I cannot identify! The slag contains fayalite and wustite indicating iron #smelting, but what is this layering around the cavity? #archaeology #metallurgy #geoscience #Ironage #science 🧪🏺
#fieldwork season on #Sardinia has started! This time in focus #environmental changes on a local scale. That means test pits in clay on bedrock. Yeah, who says #archaeology is boring? 🏺
Modern challenges in copying #ancient #craft techniques. At #FindsFriday the bead made by Murano glas is an attempt to copy the technique, quality and design of the 2000 year old #Millefiori glas fragments from #roman Murina bowls. #tübingenmuseum #archaeology #ironage #romans
I just gave my lecture on #craft traces and #workshop organisation in #Bronzeage at the 6th NAHM workshop. It's amazing to present this to such a qualified audience. Seeing a #goldsmith nod when you present the #technological traces on the #bronze work is a very good feeling. #archaeology 🏺