Brudevælte bronze lur

The first find of lurs was made in 1797 in the bog Brudevælte Mose in northern Zealand. During peat-digging in the bog the farmer Ole Pedersen found ‘6 curved brass horns’. A lur is cast in bronze. At one end of the tube there is a mouthpiece and at the other an ornamental plate. The ornamental plate is often decorated with between six and ten round depressions – eight is the usual number. Some lurs have small rattling-plates at the mouthpiece or the ornamental plate, and some have a carrying-chain.