program. Thomsen’s students were often out on fieldwork. The great Iron Age bog finds at Thorsbjerg, Nydam, Kragehul, and Vimose were excavated and published by Conrad Engelhardt. The first rich grave finds from the Roman Iron Age from Varpelev and Valløby were published by C. F. Herbst and Engelhardt; Worsaae excavated at the Jelling burial mounds and at Danevirke, and as early as the 1850s he collaborated with the zoologist japhetus steenstrup and the geologist Johann Forchammer in excavating oyster-shell middens that he interpreted as the remains of Stone Age hunting people. From 1873 forward a program of conducting regular local parish visits, made possible by the many new railway lines, was carried out, resulting in new finds and excavations. (Unfortunately, the railways also destroyed a fair number of burial mounds, as did the new roads.) Museum accessions rose in this period to an average of 810 a year.

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Gundestrup bowl discovered in Denmark

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After Worsaae’s sudden death in 1885, the dominant figure in Danish archaeology was sophus müller, who became curator of the National Museum in 1892. Projects begun by Worsaae were carried on (including the interdisciplinary study of kitchen middens, the results of which were published in 1900), many new finds were published (such as the sun-chariot from Trundholm and the silver cauldron from Gundestrup), and most large-find groups were reassessed. Among the new activities carried out was the major single-grave project in Jutland, designed to save some of the thousands of grave mounds being destroyed in those years. A regional study of settlements was initiated, and the first Maglemosian habitation site was excavated by Georg Sarauw. The large Iron Age graveyards in Jutland were also systematically studied by C. Neergaard. In fact, a large part of the National Museum’s work now focused on Jutland. Systematic excavation techniques were developed, and Müller gradually created his own staff of assistants. During this period, until Müller’s retirement in 1921, find accessions