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Reconstruction of a Viking house. The 16 identical longhouses were arranged in a square with the corners almost touching. They were 28.5 meters long (96 Roman feet of 29.6 cm), 5 meters wide at the ends and 7.5 meters in the middle, the long walls slightly curved to the outside. The walls consisted of double rows of posts with planks wedged ...
The Lofotr Viking Museum (Norwegian: Lofotr Vikingmuseum) is a historical museum based on a reconstruction and archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain's village on the island of Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the small village of Borg, near Bøstad, in Vestvågøy Municipality. [1]
A reconstructed Viking chieftain's longhouse at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Lofoten, Norway. The Neolithic long house type was introduced with the first farmers of Central and Western Europe around 5000 BCE, 7,000 years ago. These were farming settlements built in groups of six to twelve longhouses; they were home to large extended families and ...
Trelleborgs Museum entrance. Trelleborgs Museum is a museum in the city of Trelleborg in southern Sweden.The museum focuses on local history. [1] The museum particularly exhibits a reconstruction of a Viking longhouse, [2] and a reconstruction of a late Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer from circa 7,000 BP, whose remains were found in the archaeological site of Skateholm, near Trelleborg.
It is a historically accurate reconstruction of the three buildings, including a longhouse, which stood 7 km to the north at Stöng; the farm is believed to have been buried under volcanic ash in 1104 following the eruption of the volcano Hekla.
L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. ' Meadows Cove ') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.
A reconstructed Viking Age longhouse (28.5 metres long) in Denmark.. Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center of community social life.
Otherwise, information on the hall site is mainly provided by two innovative multimedia tools: on the one hand the Reconstruction Window and on the other hand two multimedia tables. [2] A hands-on children's area is also a part of the exhibition where replicas of Viking Age toys are provided along with ancient boardgames and other activities.