The two bronze bucks are part of the richest find from the Norwegian Bronze Age. They were found together with other bronze objects in Lunner in Hadeland in 1925, probably buried as a sacrifice to the gods. The objects are dated to 700-500 BC. In the Bronze Age, people began to use metal, namely bronze, for the first time. Bronze was probably not that common, but was used for special ritual and religious objects, and to show off your high status. From the pictorial world of the Bronze Age, we know that many figures are composed of parts of different animals, such as horses, birds, snakes - and humans. The bronze bucks from Vestby are such a hybrid or complex animal: bucks with horse heads. Today we do not know exactly what this meant, but we believe that the religion and worldview one had in the Bronze Age was characterized by animism – that everything in nature has a soul. From the exhibition Control – attempting to tame the world, opening soon. C23651.