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Archaeologists found this silver gilt pendant from a sheath in house 40 of the Sandby Borg site. Trade with Rome and service in the Roman army had enriched the Öland island elites.
Archaeologists work at the Sandby Borg site on Öland, Sweden. As of 2018, less than a tenth of the interior of the ring fort had been excavated.
Inside house 40, archaeologists discovered the skeletons of lambs aged between three and six months old. They provided clues to when the attack took place.
Sandby Borg lies on the east coast of the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. Constructed around a.d. 400, its oval retaining wall was once more than 16 feet high. The stone wall that crosses it was built much later.