The Borgring fortress was discovered using airborne Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation technology. It was built during the reign of the Viking manly mortal monarch Harald Bluetooth inwards the tenth century
[Credit: Goodchild et al./Antiquity 2017]
A rare archaeological regain has brought to low-cal a historic tenth century Viking fortress to the southward of Copenhagen.
The Borgring fortress is an incredibly accurate round down shape, measurement close 150 metres inwards diameter. It is the get-go of its variety to survive institute inwards Kingdom of Denmark for sixty years. The findings are published inwards a report inwards the magazine Antiquity.
The construction is i of the Trelleborg-type fortresses that convey a distinctive overall cast together with internal structure. The earthworks, houses together with other structures are meticulously arranged inside the fortress. They convey V-shaped ditches that are exactly circular, amongst 4 gates at the 4 points of the compass.
The Borgring fortress had been tentatively identified inwards the 1970s, only the applied scientific discipline was lacking together with then to verify whether it actually was a Trelleborg-type fortress, report writer Søren Michael Sindbæk of Aarhus University, told IBTimes UK.
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