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37-701: In 1986, the Havor Ring was stolen from the Gotland Museum . As of 2024, it has not been recovered. The hillfort in the small village of Havor in Hablingbo is located in a meadow about 700 m (2,300 ft) northeast of the main building at Stora Havor farm. The fort was built more than 2000 years ago during the Pre-Roman Iron Age . At that time it was situated on the south banks of the lake that later became Mästermyr mire. The hillfort

74-555: A forensic scientist , both retired. Their focus has been on a former employee at the museum – a now deceased archaeologist who was convicted of multiple antiquities thefts and sentenced to psychiatric care after having been diagnosed with kleptomania . About a year after the theft, a copy of the torc was made from the copy at the History Museum. As of 2016, that second copy is displayed in the Gotland Museum along with

111-466: A rattle . No official archaeological report was written on the Havor hoard or the excavation of the site at the time of the find. The gold torc, known as the Havor Ring ( Havorringen ) was made in the 1st century. It, along with other neck rings of this kind, were previously believed to be of western Celtic or southeast European origin, but it is now concluded that the Havor Ring could have been made in

148-436: A flat stone on the inside of the mound. As there was no archaeologist present that day, they put the stone back and shoveled some dirt over it and continued to dig elsewhere. The next day archaeologists took control of the site and police had to keep press, TV crews and spectators at bay. The excavation supervisor, then archaeology student Peter Manneke, was credited with the find. Manneke phoned his boss, professor Erik Nylén, who

185-420: A large Roman bronze vessel with a handle, a situla , which held a large gold torc, four Roman wine cups resembling modern tastevins , a bronze strainer and two bronze bells. The hoard was from about 100 AD and all the objects were exceptionally well preserved. On the handle of the situla were stamps reading "TOR, CANNIMASUIT, (P CI)PI POLYB and IPI(?)". The two bells were tied together with leather straps into

222-473: A publishing house for books on subjects related to the island's heritage. The museum's collections consists of about 400,000 objects, which are stored in three depositories. The largest of these is the Magasin Visborg outside Visby and since 2014, this storehouse is open to the public. The collections are divided into these sections: The objects in the collections have in most cases been donated to

259-425: Is named after the first known owner, Botulf Kattlund a judge from Eke thing . In 1922, the farm was bought by Gotlands Fornvänner . The acquisition was made possible by a donation from Wilhelmina von Hallwyl . Adjacent to the farm is a 12th-century citadel . It was still three stories high in the 18th century. As archeological examination of it was made in 1950. As of 2015 , the farm is an open-air museum during

296-403: Is surrounded by a round mound or wall 55 m (180 ft) in diameter, about 1 m (3.3 ft) high and 7–8 m (23–26 ft) wide. On top of the mound, there are traces of a wooden palisade and outside it are traces of a grave. Close by are also a couple of Iron Age house foundations and in one of these seven denarii minted in 112–192 AD were found. Archaeological excavations of

333-417: Is the most richly decorated and technically most complicated of the six torcs with a ring-body made from several twisted gold wires figure-8-shaped filigree ornamentation on the cones by the claps orbs. The gold wires of the ring section were twisted around a core-rod which was later removed. This made the torc very flexible when opening and closing the clasp mechanism hidden within the front orbs. The cones on

370-598: The Baltic Sea . The Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society was founded on 16   October 1874. The initiator was P A Säve and the purpose of the society was to collect all kind of objects that had been used in everyday life in the past on Gotland and preserve them for future generations. Folktales, songs, traditions, craft skills and other aspects of life on the island, past and present, were to be written down in books, journals and notes, and collected in an archive. The following year, on 22   May at five o'clock in

407-512: The Nordic countries . As of 2016, it is the earliest known well-dated major gold ornament in the Germanic north. The torc is 257 mm (10.1 in) in diameter and weighs close to 800 grams (1.8 lb), with a gold value of about SEK 40,000–50,000 in 2006. However, the value of the neck ring as a historic art object is estimated at tens of million SEK. A copy of it was made for a display at

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444-668: The Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. Because of its size, the torc is considered a unique object. It is too large to be worn by a person and it is believed to have adorned a statue of a deity and was part of a treasure belonging to a temple. Five similar but smaller torcs have been found; one in Trollhättan , one in a bog on Jutland , two near Kyiv and one at Olbia by the Black Sea . The Havor Ring

481-578: The Danish invasion of Gotland in 1361, led by Valdemar Atterdag resulting in the Battle of Mästerby and the Battle of Visby . The museum was founded in 1875, by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society ( Gotlands fornvänner ) at the initiative of Pehr Arvid Säve . The purpose was to collect historic artifacts and everyday objects connected to Gotland as well as documenting immaterial aspects of life on

518-438: The Gotland Museum. The buildings are now linked with each other to accommodate the exhibitions and administration of the museum. During the 20th century, additional stairwells and elevators have been installed. The court yard was renovated and the main entrance to the museum was moved from Standgatan to the yard during the conversion in 2007. The building at Sankt Hansgatan 21, was built in 1847–58 by architect C Bergman to house

555-535: The Swedish TV show Efterlyst (" Wanted "). Several persons have been interviewed and investigated about the crime over the years but without results. The theft is now prescribed but even if the police have no ongoing investigation about it, tips from the public are still coming into the Visby police department. Since 2015, two private investigators have been looking for the torc; a former intelligence agent and

592-469: The afternoon the society had a meeting where it was decided to rent some kind of premises for the collections. A "Hall of Antiquities" (a Fornsal ) was to be created and opened to the public. The society first rented a hall in the old school for girls close to the Visby Cathedral , and in the beginning of July 1880, the old brännvin distillery at Strandgatan was bought by the society to serve as

629-400: The antiquarian in charge of security found everything in order and the alarm was reset. At 12:45   pm the alarm went off again. This time the antiquarian noticed that a latch on the lock was recessed, meaning that the showcase was unlocked, but she did not notice that the torc was gone. She locked the case and reset the alarm again. The theft was discovered at noon the next day. According to

666-637: The area in 1961–80, revealed that the site had been continuously inhabited from the Bronze Age until the Middle Ages . The hoard was discovered on the first day of an archaeological excavation in April 1961, by a couple of workers who were removing turf from the mound around the hillfort. The excavation was a relief work project provided by Havdhem Municipality. Two men found a vessel containing several objects and "something that looked like gold" under

703-498: The art museum is part of the Gotland Museum. The museum collection consists mainly of paintings and arts and craft with a connection to Gotland, starting from the early 19th century up to the present time. The Kapitelhusgården (the Chapter House Manor) was the residence of the bishop of Linköping on his visits to Visby during the Middle Ages , and is mentioned as such for the first time in 1432. The ground floor of

740-513: The block was sold to a merchant and starting from 1830, the rest of the houses were used as storage for weapons and ammunition by the Swedish army . After having bought the first house, Fornsalen, for their exhibition in 1880, the Gotlands fornvänner society continued to buy and add buildings within the block and extend the museum. In 1930, they had bought and incorporated the entire block into

777-452: The bronze objects from the hoard. Gotland Museum The Gotland Museum ( Swedish : Gotlands museum ) (previously known as Länsmuseet på Gotland or Gotlands Fornsal ) in Visby , Sweden, is the county museum of Gotland . It was founded by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society in 1875, at the initiative of Pehr Arvid Säve . The museum owns a number of houses and farms on Gotland, some of which are used as museums. It also has

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814-481: The buildings have been reused or incorporated into the newer ones. In the Middle Ages, the block was in the part of the town which was the center of commerce and trade. At that time the square-shaped block had numerous smaller buildings divided into three block by two narrow alleys running in an east-westerly direction. A number of the foundations for these old houses are still intact under ground. This structure

851-654: The farm and used it as summer residence. It is used by the museum to illustrate what life in the country on the island could be like during the 1800s. As of 2015 the Norrbys farm in Väte is the first and only Cultural Reserve in Gotland. It is kept in the state of a typical, working farm during the first half of the 1900s. The farm has been in the same family since 1728, and when the last owner, Martha Johansson died in 1995, she left it to Gotlands Fornvänner . The distribution of

888-488: The first volksschule in Visby. It later became school for first and second graders in Visby, and from the 1950s it was used by the Visby läroverk , a school for the town's teenage students. With the completion of a new large school outside the wall in 1971, the building was used for various other forms of education. The house was completely renovated in 1987–88, to accommodate the newly established art museum. As of 2015 ,

925-809: The first museum. The first house is now known as the Picture stone Hall ( Bildstenshallen ). As of 2015 , the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity owns the entire block surrounding the Picture stone Hall which is the modern museum. The society owns several farms and houses that are also part of the museum. Membership in the society is open to anyone for a fee. The museum consists of the main building Fornsalen at Standgatan in Visby, Gotlands Konstmuseum (the Art Museum), Kapitelhusgården (Chapter House Manor), Kajsartornet fängelsemuseum (Kajsar Tower Prison Museum), Kattlunds, Petes and Norrbys. The main building of

962-485: The front of the ring are decorated with bullheads and half-moons made of gold sheet, surrounded by small gold grains and twisted gold wires in a filigree pattern. On 18   June 1986, the Havor Ring was stolen during visiting hours from the Gotland Museum. The circumstances of the theft have been described as "mysterious". On that day, the alarm in the Treasury was activated twice. After the first time, at 12   pm,

999-531: The house is a courtyard surrounded by smaller buildings and sheds. During the summer, this is turned into a herb garden, a medieval tavern and workshops for medieval handicraft. The museum also have an exhibition in the main house. The Kajsartornet or Kajsarn (the Kajsar Tower) is a part of, and was built at the same time as, the Visby City Wall , making it the oldest tower in the east part of

1036-426: The island. Through the years, the function of the museum has remained the same. The museum has grown steadily as the collections increased. Houses, farms and other buildings have been left to the museum in wills and through donations, and the number of members in the society have increased from a handful to over 2,400 in 2015. In 2011, the museum initiated a networking project with other museums in countries around

1073-589: The land belonging to the farm has been left unaltered since the 1930s. The buildings and the land are now listed . The Fornsalen Publishing (the Fornsalens Förlag ) is owned by the museum and specializes in literature with connections to Gotland. The company publishes three series of scientific journals, the Gotländskt Arkiv (Gotlandic Archive), Russi and Småskrifter från Gotlands Museum (Booklets from Gotland Museum). The publications from

1110-479: The main house or Chapter House ( Kapitelhuset ), was built during the first half of the 13th century, with the grand hall on the second floor added about half a century later. The building has no cellar. The house functioned as the town's firewood depot, well into the 19th century and was hence nicknamed "the bishop's woodshed". As of 2015 the house is owned by the Gotlands Fornvänner . Adjacent to

1147-680: The museum by individuals, single items or entire estates. While some of the art has been bought by the museum, the art collection also comprises art from the Brucebo Foundation, the Heritage Society and the Gotland Municipality , held in trust by the museum. The most prominent permanent exhibitions in the museum are the Picture Stone Hall, Spillings Hoard and 1361 - Battle for Gotland , about

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1184-496: The museum is as of 2015 , the entire block of buildings surrounded by Strandgatan , Mellangatan , Brännerigränd and Dubbens gränd . The buildings are placed around a central court yard, from which the different parts of the museum are accessed. The block is divided into two sections, the Museet 1 and Museet 2 . These sections are made up of six houses, some of which are made from two or more older houses, where walls or parts of

1221-399: The police, the lock had been picked or opened with a key. The police immediately sent out a nationwide alert about the missing torc and contacted Interpol . A SEK 25,000 reward was offered for information leading to the recovery of the neck ring. A young man who had been seen in the Treasury was suspected of the theft, but he was never found. In the late 1990s, the crime was investigated on

1258-542: The summers, hosting markets, jousting tournaments and private events. Petes is a seaside farm in Hablingbo in the south part of Gotland. It is next to the Pete Cove on the western coast. The buildings on the farm are from the late 18th and 19th century. The year 1797, is carved on the stove in the main building. The farm was donated to Gotlands Fornvänner in 1965, by apothecary Ada Block in Visby, who had restored

1295-533: The wall. The tower was used as the town's prison from 1681 to 1859. As of 2015 , it is used as a prison museum under the direction of the Gotland Museum. The main building on the Kattlunds farm in Grötlingbo is partially medieval . The oldest part of the house is from the 13th century. The first house was expanded upon during the late 1700s and early 1800s, and it has been preserved in that state. The farm

1332-447: Was in Stockholm at the time and he immediately flew to Gotland. To guard the find Manneke and Nylén spent the night in sleeping bags by the hoard. The hoard was brought to Gotland Museum where it went on public display in the Treasury ( Skattkammaren ) for the next 25 year. At first it was displayed in a custom built iron case with armored glass and in the mid 1980s it was moved to an ordinary glass alarmed showcase. The find consisted of

1369-520: Was used until 1697, when the southern alley disappeared and the building plots were redistributed. In 1777, the Swedish government bought the whole block to use as one of its brännvin distilleries ( Kronobränneri ). At that time the block consisted of 18 buildings of varying size. These were partly demolished, rebuilt, added to or converted, giving the block its present layout. The system with these types of distilleries did not last long and in 1813, part of

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