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Nordic households – dwellings and daily life from Aggersborg to Staraya Ladoga

Nordic households – dwellings and daily life from Aggersborg to Staraya Ladoga. Sarah Croix, PhD Post-doctoral researcher Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology Aarhus University. Aggersborg. Excavated areas , 1945-1952. Excavations 1945-1952

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Nordic households – dwellings and daily life from Aggersborg to Staraya Ladoga

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  1. Nordic households – dwellings and dailylife from Aggersborg to Staraya Ladoga Sarah Croix, PhD Post-doctoral researcher Medieval and RenaissanceArchaeology Aarhus University

  2. Aggersborg Excavatedareas, 1945-1952 Excavations 1945-1952 Publicationexpected Christmas 2012

  3. 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?

  4. 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 XB Hus FA Hus C Hus A

  5. Aggersborg – three main phases of occupation Before ca. 980: destruction of the former settlement Ca. 980: construction of the ring-fortress Short-lived royal project

  6. Preservation of archaeological remains House A. Alignments of post-holes show ingthebowedlong-walls and a transversal partitionwall to the foreground. Relatively good for Viking-age Denmark Layout: post-holes alignments Preserved fire-places Preserved chalk floors and stone-pavements House C. Fire-placewithunderlayer of small stones and chalk. House GS. Preservedchalkfloor and fire place

  7. Layout and proportions • Houses GS (26,7m) C (23,8m) • A (20,8m) • Transversal division: threeequalsections (cookingarea / dwellingroom / byre) • Sharedmeasurement system and ideaabout the proper spatialorganization of houses Graphic S. Sindbæk.

  8. The layout of the dwelling room and the position of the fire place Houses GS, C and A. Transversal division: twoequalsections (chalkfloor / fire place) Longitudinal division: threeaisles (chalkfloor and fire place / platforms onboth sides) One system defining the layout of dwellingrooms GraphicS. Sindbæk.

  9. House D Chieftain’s house: > Position in the landscape > Continuity over 200 years > Size: 40,8m > Finds: gold armring and glassbeaker fragments Seen from west

  10. Layout, proportions and dwelling room House: > transversal division: fourequalsections (byre / annexe / dwellingroom / cookingarea) Dwellingroom: > transversal division: twoequalsections (chalkfloor / fire place) > longitudinal division: threeaisles (chalkfloor and fire place / platforms onboth sides) Four sections instead of three: conservative building tradition.

  11. Staraya Ladoga

  12. Houses 4, 7 and 9 ? ? House: > transversal division: threeequalsections (anteroom / doubleddwellingroom) Dwellingroom: > transversal division: twoequalsections (woodenfloor / fire place; exception: house 4) > longitudinal division: threeaisles (woodenfloor and fire place / platforms onboth sides) ? ?

  13. Comparison: proportions

  14. Comparison: layout of the dwelling room ? ? ?

  15. The circulation of ideas across the Baltic sea 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.

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