Vorbasse : The Development of a Settlement through the First Millenium A. D.

Vorbasse - The Development of a Settlement through the First Millenium A. D

Reviews

Reviews: Arne Skjølsvold: Slettabøboplassen. Et bidrag til diskusjonen om forholdet mellem fangst- og bondesamfunnet i yngre steinalder og bronsealder. Stavanger 1977. (by Svend Nielsen). Klaus Ebbesen: Tragtbægerkultur i Nordjylland. Nordiske Fortidsminder. Ser. B, Vol. 5, 197 8. (by P. 0. Nielsen). Birgitta Hulthen: On Ceramic Technology during the Scanian Neolithic and Bronze Age. Stockholm 1977. (by Ulla Engberg). Renate Rolle: Totenkult der Skythen I. Das Steppengebiet. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen 18,I, I and I,2. Berlin-N.Y. 1979. (by Ole Klindt-Jensen). Werner Haarnagel: Die Grabung Feddersen Wierde. Methode, Hausbau, Siedlungs- u. Wirtschaftsformen sowie Sozialstruktur. Wiesbaden 1979. (by Steen Hvass). U. Nasman and E. Wegraeus (eds.): Eketorp. Fortification and Settlement on Öland/Sweden. The Setting. Stockholm 1979. (by Ulla Lund Hansen). Ingrid Ulbricht: Die Geweihverarbeitung in Haithabu. Die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu, Vol. 7. Neumünster 1978 . Heid Gjöstein Resi: Die Specksteinfunde aus Haithabu. Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu, Vol. 14. Neumünster 1979. (by Hans Jørgen Madsen)

Yggdrasill. The world Tree

                      Yggdrasill The World Tree At the centenary of the birth of Johannes Brøndsted there is good reason for recognizing his efforts to make Danish archaeology take a giant leap forward by creating a close cooperation between University and Museum and to demonstrate how research and information can be two sides of the same matter, which is actually the force and quality of museums. The archaeological institutes of Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities are of vital importance to the activities of the archaeological museums and consequently also to the identity of the local community. The decentralization of archaeological investigations and excavations has created a fertile soil for a professional effort based on the conditions of the specific area, with cultural activities carried out locally. These wide-ranged activities have turned out to be a great advantage to Danish archaeology and Danish museums on the whole. Steen Hvass Vejle Kulturhistoriske Museu

Et gravkammer fra enkeltgravskulturen

Grave chambers m the single-grave culture The earliest construction in a ploughed-down barrow at Gårslev, East Jutland, was a well preserved grave chamber built for two men. The chamber was erected on the original soil surface and measures 2.60x2.10 m, built of vertical planks and 4 large corner posts, dug into a 50-55 cm deep foundation trench, supported by stones (Fig. 2). Well preserved carbonized wood remained, 30-40 cm above the surface. The posts as well as the planks were standing on the inner side of the trench (Fig. 3-4). Each plank was 30-40 cm wide and 6-9 cm thick. The corner posts were 60 cm wide and 10 cm thick. No traces of the dead were left. One of them must have been buried with his head to south-west, the face to west, with a battle axe, a small thin-bladed flint axe, a polished thick-butted axe and a swayed, East-Danish beaker. At the western end of the chamber a man lay with his head north-west orientated, with a small battle axe and a swayed East­Danish beaker (2-5) (Fig. 4, 7, 8). Obviously the dead have been of different status. The grave is dated to the Ground-Grave Period. The chamber was covered by roof planks and has at a time collapsed over the buried. A nearly 2.70 m long and 50-55 cm wide oak plank was preserved, because it had been scorched (Fig 5-6). A frame of large stones, 40-50 cm tall, remained in the southern side of the barrow (Fig. 1 & 9). The barrow was slightly oval, 22x24 m. Beside the grave chamber there was also a small house in the nort-eastern corner, 1.3x1 m. It was built of vertically placed planks, 5 cm thick and 15-20 cm wide (Fig. 10). No artifacts date the building. The fill of trench and planks proved to be quite similar to that of the trench and planks in the grave chamber. The barrow was reused later for one of the more common graves from the Upper-Grave Period (6-7) (Fig. 11, 12, 13). Contemporary, rather small wooden coffins with a long entrance as well as larger grave chambers are known in a limited number from sites in North Jutland (8-12) in the same area, Himmerland, which has the largest concentration of stone built coffins (13), but none of them is quite similar to the Gårslev-chamber, as well as the small plank house beside the barrow is not known from any other finds. The grave goods in the two graves from Gårslev clearly show that both graves belong to the East-Danish and South-Jutlandish Single Grave Culture (17, 18). The beakers have most of their parallels at North Funen, but also some in the eastern Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg. The pottery from North Funen is also showing close relationship to pottery from North Jutland (19, 20, 21). Lone og Steen Hvass Vejle Museum                          &nbsp