Making Place for a Viking Fortress. An archaeological and geophysical reassessment of Aggersborg, Denmark

Making Place for a Viking Fortress. An archaeological and geophysical reassessment of Aggersborg, Denmark

This article revisits the archaeology of the Viking-age settlement and ring fortress at Aggersborg, Denmark, based on a large-scale geophysical survey using magnetic gradiometry and ground-penetrating radar, as well as legacy excavation data. Late 10th-century Aggersborg, the largest known fortress...

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Main Authors: Hannah Brown, Helen Goodchild, Søren M. Sindbæk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2014-06-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
Aggersborg
Jutland
Denmark
Viking
Early Medieval
fortress
village
reassessment
geophysical survey
magnetometry
GPR
Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue36/brown_index.html

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