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  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Uncovered using Lidar

    "The landscape context has been documented using topographical and historical maps, LiDAR images and computer-based models." (AB Ev) – "Modern non-intrusive survey adds to our understanding at various scales, from high-definition LiDAR to constantly improving ground-based geophysical techniques." (Nomination file, p. 56) – "In 2014, as a result of landscape-scale LiDAR survey specifically targeted at Viking-Age Ring Fortresses, Borgring was identified as probably being a Viking-Age ring fortress." (Nomination file, p. 132)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Sieges and Battles

    "Trelleborg shows clear evidence of an attack or siege against the fortress." (Nomination file, p. 68) – "Weapons such as iron axes, arrow points and parts of shields were also found and there are strong indications of a battle and castle attack taking place at some point during the castles' short lifespan. 19 arrowheads were found buried deep into the ramparts and gates. Combined with the three mass graves, this is taken as solid evidence. The slain soldiers were quickly buried in the mass graves, many of them showing deep cuts and lethal wounds from close combat weapons." (Wikipedia)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Replica in Mini-Europe

    Trelleborg (Link)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Recently discovered

    Borgring: "Senior sergeant in the Danish Airforce, Valdemar Ryhl, first spotted the dark shadow in the ploughed field in 1970. He contacted the National Museum in Copenhagen suggesting that the ring-shaped shadow was a ring fortress from the Viking-Age." (Nomination file, p. 171)

 

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Ramsar Wetlands

    Aggersborg: "Løgstør Bredning, a 436 km2 wetland site of international importance (designated under the UNESCO Ramsar Convention, and which also covers the fortress in its eastern part)" (Nomination file, p. 73)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Nunneries

    Nonnebakken: "The fortress site, presumably then still royal property, was occupied by a Benedictine nunnery in the second half of the 12th century, hence the name Nonnebakken ["Nun Hill"]." (Nomination file, p. 158)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    North Sea

    Aggersborg is "directly on the Limfjord", on an "E-W sailing route, the closest linking the North Sea and Baltic". (90 km to North Sea, 70 km to the Kattegat).– "The Limfjord had open waterways at both ends, which meant that it was the quickest passage between the North Sea in the west and the Kattegat in the east." (Nomination file, p. 62, 65)

  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Neolithic age

    Trelleborg: "In addition to evidence of the actual fortress and the settlement, there were also Neolithic remains in the form of refuse pits and possibly parts of a causewayed enclosure of Sarup type (Neolithic, c. 3000 BCE)" (Nomination file, p. 166)

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