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- Title
Borgring: the discovery of a Viking Age ring fortress.
- Authors
Goodchild, Helen; Holm, Nanna; Sindbæk, Søren M.
- Abstract
A massive tenth-century AD ring fortress was recently identified at Borgring, south of Copenhagen in Denmark. The combination of high-resolution LiDAR mapping, geophysical survey and targeted small-scale excavation has demonstrated that the site belongs to a rare class of monuments—the Trelleborg-type ring fortress. Borgring is the first such monument to be found in Denmark in over six decades, and provides an opportunity to investigate a type-site of Viking Age military organisation and conflict. The authors argue that Borgring complements a varied group of fortification structures in late Viking Age Denmark, part of a military network close to contemporaneous European ideas of military kingship and defence.
- Subjects
SCANDINAVIA; VIKING fortification; RINGFORTS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; LIDAR; GEOPHYSICAL surveys; VIKINGS; VIKING antiquities; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2017, Vol 91, Issue 358, p1027
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2017.118