EXARC Journal (Jun 2013)

Testing a Reconstruction: A Frosty Week in a Viking Age House

  • Kristiina Paavel,
  • Viire Pajuste,
  • R. Rootslane

Journal volume & issue
no. 2013/2

Abstract

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In the summers of 2010 and 2011, an archaeologically inspired Viking Age horizontal log house with a two-layer split plank roof, clay floor and a dry-stone stove without a chimney was built in Rõuge, Estonia. In the winter of 2012 (30 January 2012 - 05 February 2012) a one-week living-experiment was organised to test the building. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the experiment and present the results achieved.

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