The Bishop of Ribe’s rural property in Lustrup

In 1996, an archaeological trial excavation prior to an expansion of the Viking Centre in Lustrupholm led to the discovery of among other things a 54-m long, approximately N–S-oriented post-built house from the Middle Ages. The find gave rise to continued investigations, and in subsequent years the remains of a – by Danish standards – very extensive series of buildings were excavated. This can be identified from written sources as a farm site belonging to the Bishop of Ribe. The article presents the results of the archaeological investigations up to 2007. One or two large houses from the 1100s were succeeded around 1200 by a two-winged post-built complex which was expanded in later years with a brick-built house and a number of other large buildings apparently constructed according to a great variety of principles. The complex appears to have been demolished before the end of the thirteenth century

Pottemageraffald fra Illerup ådal

The waster from the potter in Illerup By Morten Søvsø The article deals with two finds of pottery remains from the Illerup river valley near Skanderborg. A survey of the material reveals that there were distinct differences between the types of vessels in the two finds, and – rather surprisingly – it is hardly a question of remains from the same potter, but instead from two potters who did not necessarily work during the same period of time. The predominant type of vessel in the first collection was an unglazed globular pot with a rounded body and an outbent rim. Furthermore, there are many potsherds from simple decorated pitchers as well as some from big unglazed bowls. These types of vessels were also present in the pottery from the other collection, but there was a considerably larger share of the big bowls. Moreover, there were potsherds of smaller bowls glazed on the inside, as well as a few potsherds from very small pitchers. A number of feet in the find indicate that some of the pots have been applied with tripod feet. One distinguishing feature of both of the finds is that the profiles of the rims of the pots or vessels vary greatly, and that the potter did not work with any standard type; a fact that ought to be remembered before fine-meshed typologies on the rim profiles are set up. Both pottery finds belong to the 14th century, but it is not possible to say whether one of the finds is younger than the other. The pottery from both finds must be designated as typical high-medieval kitchenware of a simple, undecorated type, which is the most commonly found one in East Jutland

Nye hedenske grave fra det ældste Ribe

I foråret 2012 foretog Sydvestjyske Museer en nødudgravning af den gamle parkeringsplads ved Netto-supermarkedet på Seminarievej i Ribe. Udgravningen afdækkede spor fra byens første tid i form af fire begravelser tilhørende den gravplads, der breder sig i området omkring jernbanens forløb igennem Ribe. Gravene gav et sjældent indblik i det ældste Ribes mangfoldige gravskik, som var præget af byens vidt forgrenede handelsforbindelser og kontakten med forskellige kulturelle grupper