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Title:Ribe Excavations 1970-76, Volume 5
Author:Mogens Bencard, Helge Brinch Madsen & Aino Kann Rasmussen (eds)
ISBN:8788415252 : 9788788415254
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Pages:280
Weight: 1.258 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - April 2005
List Price: 19 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:European archaeology: Denmark


Excavations were carried out in the town of Ribe in southern Denmark from 1970-76 in order to find the earliest traces of the town. It extracted remains of a permanent settlement with an associated marketplace founded within a period of 704-710. This reveals an 8th-century trading site of a character never seen before in the Scandinavian region, thus Denmark appears in a hitherto unknown way as a participant in North-European development in this period.

Introduction; Absolute Dating of a Bronze Casting Workshop; The Runic Inscription on the Ribe Skull Fragment; The Ribe Skull Fragment -- Toolmarks and Surface Textures; The Human Remains; The Bronze, Silver, and Lead Artefacts in the 8th Century Deposits and som Pre-medieval Single Finds; Glass Bead Making Technology; Ribe Ironworks, Patrick Ottaway; The Anchor from Sct. Nicolaigade in Ribe; A Note Concerning Three Ancient Anchors from Nydam; Smithing Debris, Helge Brinch Madsen; Pottery from the 8th-9th Centuries; Clay Daub; Determinations of Wood Finds.