1. Halls at Borre: the discovery of three large buildings at a Late Iron and Viking Age royal burial site in Norway
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Wolfgang Neubauer, Roland Filzwieser, Christer Tonning, Vibeke Lia, Terje Gansum, Erich Nau, Knut Paasche, Petra Schneidhofer, Monica Kristiansen, Lars Gustavsen, Immo Trinks, and Mario Wallner
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,Geography ,060102 archaeology ,Geophysical survey (archaeology) ,General Arts and Humanities ,Ground-penetrating radar ,Viking Age ,0601 history and archaeology ,06 humanities and the arts ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Borre in Norway is famous for its Late Nordic Iron and Viking Age (AD 400–1050) monumental burial mounds. Recently, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys have revealed three large structures close to the mound cemetery. Their unusual layout and size, and location within such a prominent burial site, suggest that they were halls—high-status buildings mentioned in the Nordic sagas. The authors present the GPR results, discuss the buildings’ typological classification and provide a preliminary chronological framework. The latter suggests that the buildings coexisted with some of the burial mounds, and raises important questions about the significance of such buildings in Nordic mound-building societies.
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- 2020
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