Nordic households – dwellings and daily life from Aggersborg to Staraya Ladoga
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Nordic households – dwellings and daily life from Aggersborg to
Staraya Ladoga
Sarah Croix, PhDPost-doctoral researcher
Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology
Aarhus University
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Aggersborg
Excavations 1945-1952
Publication expected Christmas 2012
Excavated areas, 1945-1952
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Aggersborg – three main phases of occupation
Second half of the 8th century: house D with associated sunken-featured buildings to the West
A concentration of sunken-featured buildings to the East
Chieftain’s complex – manorial system?
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Aggersborg – three main phases of occupation
End 9th century: house D with associated sunken-featured buildings to the West
Smaller farmsteads to the East – village structure?
Chieftain’s complex – manorial system?
Hus FAHus A Hus CHus XB
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Aggersborg – three main phases of occupation
Before ca. 980: destruction of the former settlementCa. 980: construction of the ring-fortressShort-lived royal project
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Preservation of archaeological remains
Relatively good for Viking-age Denmark
Layout: post-holes alignments
Preserved fire-places
Preserved chalk floors and stone-pavements
House C. Fire-place with underlayer of small stones and chalk.
House GS. Preserved chalk floor and fire place
House A. Alignments of post-holes show ingthe bowed long-walls and a transversal partition wall to the foreground.
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Houses GS (26,7m) C (23,8m) A (20,8m)
Transversal division: three equal sections (cooking area / dwelling room / byre)
Shared measurement system and idea about the proper spatial organization of houses
Layout and proportions
Graphic S. Sindbæk.
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The layout of the dwelling room and the position of the fire place
Houses GS, C and A.
Transversal division: two equal sections (chalk floor / fire place)
Longitudinal division: three aisles (chalk floor and fire place / platforms on both sides)
One system defining the layout of dwelling rooms
Graphic S. Sindbæk.
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Seen from west
House D
Chieftain’s house:
> Position in the landscape> Continuity over 200 years> Size: 40,8m > Finds: gold armring and glass beaker fragments
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Layout, proportions and dwelling room
House:> transversal division: four equal sections (byre / annexe / dwelling room / cooking area)
Dwelling room:> transversal division: two equal sections (chalk floor / fire place)> longitudinal division: three aisles (chalk floor and fire place / platforms on both sides)
Four sections instead of three: conservative building tradition.
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Staraya Ladoga
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Houses 4, 7 and 9
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?House:> transversal division: three equal sections (anteroom / doubled dwelling room)
Dwelling room:> transversal division: two equal sections (wooden floor / fire place; exception: house 4)> longitudinal division: three aisles (wooden floor and fire place / platforms on both sides)
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Comparison: proportions
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Comparison: layout of the dwelling room
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Fig. 4.16. Hus D. Rester af forkullet planke ved ildstedets nordøstre hjørne. Planken må høre til en ramme om ildstedet. At den er forkullet til under gulvhøjde viser, at huset er brændt. Foto Hans Stiesdal/Nationalmuseet 1950.
The circulation of ideas across the Baltic sea