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Hassle is a location at
Hassle is a location at Ă–rebro Municipality
Ă–rebro Municipality () is a municipality in Ă–rebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Ă–rebro.
The municipality was created from the ''City of Ă–rebro'' and surrounding rural municipalities in 1971 and with some areas ...
in Ă–rebro County
Örebro County () is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly northern region of ...
, Sweden
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. It was the site of the discovery of the Hassle treasure.
Hassle treasure
The Hassle treasure (Hassleskatten) was found at Hassle in the parish ofGlanshammar
Glanshammar is a locality situated in Ă–rebro Municipality, Ă–rebro County, Sweden with 727 inhabitants in 2010.
Riksdag
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during 1936. The artifacts consist of a large bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
cauldron
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which contained two Bronze Age sword
Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, as a further development of the dagger. They were replaced by iron swords during the early part of the 1st millennium BC.
Typical Bronze Age sword ...
s of the Hallstatt
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type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze bucket
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical Cylinder (geometry), cylinder or Truncation (geometry), truncated Cone (geometry), cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom that is attached to a semicircular carrying handle (grip), handle ...
s with ''ciste a cordoni'', two small hooks of bronze and twelve large circular bronze plates with fittings of iron. All of the items were imported. The cauldron belongs to a special kind of cultic cauldron usually found in Italy
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and Greece
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, while the buckets are of a kind found in southern and central Europe
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.
The artifacts are now at the Swedish History Museum
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in Stockholm with copies on display in the Ă–rebro County Museum. The burial ground at Hassle has the RAĂ„ number Glanshammar 54: 1.
References
Nordic Bronze Age Archaeological sites in Sweden Collection of the Swedish History Museum {{Ă–rebro-geo-stub