At the end of March, we had the pleasure to be able to present the first results of the Sögel Project at the Annual Conference for Archaeometry and Heritage management at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim. The 3-day conference, supported by the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie gGmbH (CEZA), the Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie Archaeometrie e.V. (GNAA) and
The latest destination is the Landesmuseum in Mainz. This far south, we are starting to reach the contact zone between the Sögel-Wohlde blades and the Northern Alpine region with types Sandharlanden, Statzendorf, Haidershofen, Varen and Gamprin. These types are regarded as potential predecessors to the Sögel-Wohlde blades and by acquiring samples from these blades we
This time the search for Sögel and Wohlde blades took us north again by visiting museums in Münster, Herne and Detmold. This area provided a surprisingly large amount of Sögel blades which usually have decorations of a dotted line followed by three continuous lines and a row of garlands. However, there appears to have been
In the meantime, sampling continues at several museums closer to Mannheim such as at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Badischses Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe and the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer. Most of the blades sampled here are more similar to daggers than the longer blades of the Sögel and Wohlde type. However, each blade
One of the lesser known parts, and the most western periphery of the Sögel-Wohlde district are made up by the northern half of the Netherlands. Burial mounds containing Sögel or Wohlde blades occur here mostly in the central and northeastern regions of the Netherlands, whereas more southern finds, such as along the Meuse river come
The first steps of the project took place at the Landesmuseum of Lower Saxony in Hannover, which is one of our main cooperation partners. Lower Saxony is of particular importance to the project since it was one of the core areas of the Sögel-Wohlde district in the Early Bronze Age. This is made clear by