page_title: Lindholm amulet
hierarchical_section_title: Lindholm amulet
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Lindholmenamuletten, en runristad amulett av ben från 500-talet e.Kr. funnen i Lindholmen i Skåne. DR 261.
context_page_description: The Lindholm "amulet", listed as DR 261 in Rundata, is a bone piece, carved into the shape of a rib, dated to the 2nd to 4th centuries and has a runic inscription. The Lindholm bone piece is dated between 375CE to 570CE and it is around 17 centimeters long at its longest points. It currently resides at Lund University Historical Museum in Sweden.
  It was found in 1840 in Skåne, Sweden, while cutting peat from a bog. This cut the bone in half and resulted in the destruction of one rune in the second line of text though most of the artifact remained intact.
  These runic objects were offered to the water in the bogs, the same is probably true in other regions in lakes and streams, but these objects are more difficult to retrieve. Bogs provide the perfect preservation for these times of artifacts, the static, murky waters allow such artifacts to rest, undisturbed for thousands of years.
  It is very often, if not exclusively the case, that in south eastern Europe, bogs are where men's runic inscribed objects were found and grave sites are where women's runic objects were found. Men's runic objects could include weapons, amulets, tools, and other personal equipment.
context_section_description: The Lindholm "amulet", listed as DR 261 in Rundata, is a bone piece, carved into the shape of a rib,  dated to the 2nd to 4th centuries (the late Roman Iron Age) and has a runic inscription. The Lindholm bone piece is dated between 375CE to 570CE and it is around 17 centimeters long at its longest points. It currently resides at Lund University Historical Museum in Sweden.
  It was found in 1840  in Skåne, Sweden,  while cutting peat from a bog. This cut the bone in half and resulted in the destruction of one rune in the second line of text though most of the artifact remained intact.
  These runic objects were offered to the water in the bogs, the same is probably true in other regions in lakes and streams, but these objects are more difficult to retrieve. Bogs provide the perfect preservation for these times of artifacts, the static, murky waters allow such artifacts to rest, undisturbed for thousands of years.
  It is very often, if not exclusively the case, that in south eastern Europe, bogs are where men's runic inscribed objects were found and grave sites are where women's runic objects were found. Men's runic objects could include weapons, amulets, tools, and other personal equipment. Whereas women's objects could include jewelry, wands, coins, and containers. In graves no men's runic objects have been found and in the Bogs there is no evidence of women's runic objects. Other stray artifacts may have been hidden hoards and were often made from gold. This reflects the purpose and use of this object.
caption: The Lindholm amulet, as drawn by Stephens in 1884.
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