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Thorsberg Moor Plankway and Votive Causeway (Schleswig-Holstein)

Thorsberger Moor Bohlenweg · Süderbrarup Votive Trackway

Roman Iron Age (Angles)·Germanic Angles (North Germanic)·🇩🇪 Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig-Flensburg District, Süderbrarup (Anglia), Germany

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About Thorsberg Moor Plankway and Votive Causeway (Schleswig-Holstein)

7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak plankway causeway (Bohlenweg) crossing moor to ritual deposition zone of cauldron, swords, shields, chape, early Futhark inscriptions, and early trousers-and-socks. 35 m on birch sleepers, radiocarbon 100 BCE-200 CE, linking to Wittmoor trackway family but votive not transport. Deposits include Thorsberg chape runes, Roman helmet, shield buckle. Bog is iron-age portal; phosphate marks sacrifice.

7656819 consensus; Wikimedia Category Thorsberger Moor anchor. Thaw of moor since drainage threatens anaerobic seal.

Why it mattersClassic North German Iron Age votive bog with associated plank causeway, chape runes type site.

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Mysteries & theories

Mysteries

  1. 01Votive vs battle spoil

Theories

  1. 01Ritual war-booty sacrifice

Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.

History

How it came to be

Built
c.100 BCE - 300 CE (Roman Iron Age) votive + plankway
Period
Roman Iron Age (Angles)
Culture
Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Builders
Angle tribes of Anglia
Purpose
Votive causeway to sacrificial bog pool
Abandoned
c.400 CE
Rediscovered
1856-1858 Helvig Conrad Engelhardt peat digging; plankway noted 1895
Excavation
Excavated

  1. 1858

    Engelhardt recovers Thorsberg chape and weapon bog

  2. 1895

    Plankway 100 m mapped

On the ground

Structures & features

54.6373° N · 9.7687° E · 18 m · 2 mapped features

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