05-10-2012, 05:44 PM
Before I reply to Dan's question, let us get the Chronology of the Iron Age in Scandinavia sorted shall we? Cause well... seems people apparently need that and any discussion would be moot without it.
~500 BC - ~200 BC: Ældre Førromersk Jernalder/Ældre Keltisk Jernalder/Older Pre-Roman Iron Age/Older Caltic Iron Age.
~200 BC - ~1 BC: Yngre Førromersk Jernalder/Yngre Keltisk Jernalder/Younger Pre-Roman Iron Age/Younger Celtic Iron Age.
~1 AD - ~200 AD: Ældre Romersk Jernalder/Older Roman Iron Age.
~200 AD - ~400 AD: Yngre Romersk Jernalder/Younger Roman Iron Age.
~400 AD - ~600 AD: Ældre Germansk Jernalder/Older Germanic Iron Age.
~600 AD - ~800 AD: Younger Germanic Iron Age.
~800 AD - ~1100 AD: Viking Age.
This is how archeologists like to see it, though they like to debate the exact years; we historians know that such is moot anyway and that all is part of history's great stream.
Anyway; Dan is inexact, but since I know he is asking in connection with EB2, I know he means the Younger Celtic Iron Age. The answer is that when I last went over the sources two years ago, there was no mention of it anywhere. The only mail mentioned in that period is the one from Hedegårde and that is, as far as can be determined, part of a mail shirt and- what is interesting- locally made.
My own theory is that there was "mass production" (for the time and place) of weapons and mail at a site W. of Silkeborg that some of my archeologist friends are excavating where a lot of ovens, etc has been found. It is the ideal location for such, for several reasons. But they themselves say nothing on the matter yet.
Dan, I will check with them for finds and reply in our own forum or on FB.
~500 BC - ~200 BC: Ældre Førromersk Jernalder/Ældre Keltisk Jernalder/Older Pre-Roman Iron Age/Older Caltic Iron Age.
~200 BC - ~1 BC: Yngre Førromersk Jernalder/Yngre Keltisk Jernalder/Younger Pre-Roman Iron Age/Younger Celtic Iron Age.
~1 AD - ~200 AD: Ældre Romersk Jernalder/Older Roman Iron Age.
~200 AD - ~400 AD: Yngre Romersk Jernalder/Younger Roman Iron Age.
~400 AD - ~600 AD: Ældre Germansk Jernalder/Older Germanic Iron Age.
~600 AD - ~800 AD: Younger Germanic Iron Age.
~800 AD - ~1100 AD: Viking Age.
This is how archeologists like to see it, though they like to debate the exact years; we historians know that such is moot anyway and that all is part of history's great stream.
Anyway; Dan is inexact, but since I know he is asking in connection with EB2, I know he means the Younger Celtic Iron Age. The answer is that when I last went over the sources two years ago, there was no mention of it anywhere. The only mail mentioned in that period is the one from Hedegårde and that is, as far as can be determined, part of a mail shirt and- what is interesting- locally made.
My own theory is that there was "mass production" (for the time and place) of weapons and mail at a site W. of Silkeborg that some of my archeologist friends are excavating where a lot of ovens, etc has been found. It is the ideal location for such, for several reasons. But they themselves say nothing on the matter yet.
Dan, I will check with them for finds and reply in our own forum or on FB.