
Anne Birgitte Nielsen
Senior lecturer

Turfs and Timbers- Resource use in the construction of the Viking Age Ring Fortress Borgring, Southeast Denmark
Author
Summary, in English
Viking Age ring fortresses were some of the largest construction projects in Danish prehistory. In this article we reconstruct the amount of turf and timber used in the construction of the Borgring ring fortress and estimate the resource area needed to supply the building materials. Using REVEALS pollen data modelling, we quantify the regional oak land cover and estimate the resource area. The results show that even though Borgring was built in an open cultural landscape, sufficient supply of oak for the construction would have been accessible within a few kilometres from the fortress.
Department/s
- Quaternary Sciences
Publishing year
2021-07-22
Language
English
Pages
1-18
Publication/Series
Danish Journal of Archaeology
Volume
10
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Archaeology
- Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Keywords
- pollen analysis
- Landscape reconstruction algorithm (LRA)
- Timber resources
- Viking Age
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2166-2290