See the exciting Metro finds from the M3 line excavation
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The M3 line has not only tied M3 better together, it has also taught us more about history. Before the machines went into the ground to drill the 15.5 kilometre long underground tunnel, archaeologists from the Museum of Copenhagen were able to make a number of surprising discoveries that tell us something about Copenhagen and the people who lived here hundreds of years ago. Here you can read more about five of the exciting finds.
Comb holder from the Viking Age
This is a comb holder, or rather a case for a comb, that has emerged from the ground in Rådhuspladsen. It has a characteristic dot-circle ornamentation that points to the late Viking Age.
The archaeologists found many other comb fragments that bear witness to craftsmanship in an area that - before the excavation - we thought was completely outside the city.
Crafts from Rådhuspladsen
Thousand-year-old fish skeletons
Here is an archaeological find in the form of fish skeletons from Kongens Nytorv - two herring - that were found in a flat-bottomed, clay-lined pit of the type called clay bottoms.
These were used to store or process the large herring deposits in the Øresund in the Middle Ages. The herring are therefore between 800 and 1000 years old.
Fish skeletons from Kongens Nytorv
Smart wig from the 17th century
Here's the archaeological find in the form of a wig from Rådhuspladsen. In the 17th century, wigs were the shit. This one has even been cut into a smart hairstyle.
The wig was found among the rubbish in the filled moat that ran along Vester Voldgade and was filled around 1670.
Wig from Rådhuspladsen
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