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Filed work on färskesjön 2013

Anne Birgitte Nielsen

Senior lecturer

Filed work on färskesjön 2013

Turfs and Timbers- Resource use in the construction of the Viking Age Ring Fortress Borgring, Southeast Denmark

Author

  • Morten Fischer Mortensen
  • Claudia Baittinger
  • Jonas Christensen
  • Anne Birgitte Nielsen
  • Søren Nielsen
  • Anders Pihl
  • Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen
  • Morten Ravn
  • Søren Michael Sindbæk
  • Jens Úlriksen

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