Kelter i Danmark? : En studie av deponerade vagnar av Dejbjergtyp

• Main Author: Österberg, Bex
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) 2021
• Subjects: Dejbjerg wagons; Hallstatt; Celts; Celtic influence; Celtic wagons; wagon burials; Pre-Roman Iron Age; Dejbjergvagnar; kelter; keltiska influenser; keltiska vagnar; vagngravar; förromersk järnålder; Archaeology; Arkeologi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101688

For the last 200 years, 6 wagons of the same Celtic inspired wagon type have been found in Denmark: two in a bog, two in a grave each, and two in a house each. This wagon type is called the Dejbjerg wagons, named after the two most known wagons in the category; the ones found in the bog called Præstegårdmose in Dejbjerg, Denmark. The purpose of the essay is to study the Dejbjerg wagons and their relation to the four-wheeled wagons of the Celtic Europe, the contacts between Denmark and Central Europe, and examine what the purpose, or rather the use, of the wagons’ deposition was – if they even had any. To be able to do this, action-based ritual theory – a theory popularised by Catherine Bell – has been used. The essay is concluded in that the way the wagons have been deposited must have meant something for the prehistoric Danish people, and the motifs and ornaments seen on the Danish wagons have a clear Celtic influence, which leads to the conclusion that the prehistoric Danish people must have had contacts in one way or another with the Celts.