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Denmark’s Earliest Iron Weapons Unearthed: Gold-Inlaid Spears Offered to a Sacred Spring 2,800 Years Ago
When a small archaeological team reopened the windswept fields of Boeslunde in southwest Zealand last summer, they expected yet another chapter in a region already famed for glittering Bronze Age offerings. Instead, they uncovered an object that should not have existed there at all—an iron spearhead embellished with shimmering gold. Within hours, a second appeared.…