This Listing This listing is based upon that provided in Broholm, Larsen & Skjerne 1949 which numbers the instruments from 1 to 55. This listing uses their ordering but numbers them from 101 to 155.

Find Spots: Instruments found in modern Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Latvia

Dates of Finds: 1797 to recent

Current Location: The majority are in The Danish National Museum Copenhagen with others in museums in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Latvia, Russia and the UK

Condition: Many complete, others fragmentary to various degrees.

Musical Characteristics: Varied

Description: Many lurs were found in complete condition with a left and right-wound instrument. In general, they are conically-bored instrument with a prominent, annular, decorated bell disc surrounding the bell exit.

Main Citations:

1893: Hammerich

1895: Starr, a brief generic mention of lurs in a general article on Archaeology in Denmark in Popular Science Monthly Volume 47 May 1895

1938: Bronsted

1949: Broholm

1978 Holmes