Medieval History
Researchers have now assigned a date to the sensational find of a rowboat. The dating cements the small vessel?s position as Denmark?s only preserved medieval rowboat.
Archaeologists in the Danish town of Vordingborg have every reason to be excited.
During a recent excavation of the moat surrounding the Vordingborg Castle ruins, they came across a fallen castle tower and a rowboat from the Middle Ages. The latter has never previously been found in Denmark.
Lars Sass Jensen, who headed the excavation, says that a dating of the boat?s wooden planks reveals that the little vessel was in its prime around the year 1400.
?A tree-ring dating of the rowboat reveals that the wood that the boat was built of was felled around the year 1390. So a good estimate would be that the boat has been sailing around in the moat around the year 1400,? he says.
With this dating, the soon-to-be-opened Danish Castle Centre in Vordingborg can boast of housing Denmark?s only preserved medieval rowboat.
Click here to read this article from ScienceNordic
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Medieval History
Denmark?s only medieval rowboat dated
Archaeologists in the Danish town of Vordingborg have every reason to be excited.
During a recent excavation of the moat surrounding the Vordingborg Castle ruins, they came across a fallen castle tower and a rowboat from the Middle Ages. The latter has never previously been found in Denmark.
Lars Sass Jensen, who headed the excavation, says that a dating of the boat?s wooden planks reveals that the little vessel was in its prime around the year 1400.
?A tree-ring dating of the rowboat reveals that the wood that the boat was built of was felled around the year 1390. So a good estimate would be that the boat has been sailing around in the moat around the year 1400,? he says.
With this dating, the soon-to-be-opened Danish Castle Centre in Vordingborg can boast of housing Denmark?s only preserved medieval rowboat.
Click here to read this article from ScienceNordic
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