at http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,406023,polish-archaeologists-… … collaboration between Polish archaeologists and their Danish counterparts have taken place at a site on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. Vasagard, it is claimed on the Polish web site, is a temple set up to worship the Sun. It is surrounded by a palisade and the entracne is aligned to the solstices, they say (but also hedge their bets by including the equinoxes). Several ditches were filled in with large amounts of pottery, animal bones and damaged stone discs (see image above and below).
the stone discs are pebbles that have been worked into a disc shape. In Scandinavia the gods were sometimes associated with a disc or shield shape but that might not be the reason. It may simply be that it was easier to inscribe the stones when the weathered surface was removed, or a suitable colour had emerged – as above. The claim is that they are images of the Sun's rays, a view that would naturally come to mind if you were not aware of other possibilities such as comets and meteors, or lightning discharges- or simply avoided such an interpretation in fear of being ridiculed. They also look like spiders webs – and many other things. The point is these discs were purposely burnt and deliberately broken and this occurred, probably as they say, in connection with rituals performed at the site. As they were found deliberately buried along with lots of animal bones (feasting) and pottery (food and drink vessels) was this some kind of ceremonial re-enactment of an event which involved burning the discs – in imitation of meteors burning up as they fell towards the Earth.