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

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

doi:10.7146/dja.v10i0.121918

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

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

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Journal	Danish Journal of Archaeology
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v10i0.121918
Publication status	Published - 2021 Jul 22

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Archaeology
Multidisciplinary Geosciences

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pollen analysis
Landscape reconstruction algorithm (LRA)
Timber resources
Viking Age

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

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