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Dendrochronological dating of the Viking Age ship burials at Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Niels Bonde  and
Arne Emil Christensen
Niels Bonde
Affiliation:
National Museum of Denmark, National Science Research Unit, Dendrochronology, Ny Vestergade 11, DK-1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Arne Emil Christensen
Affiliation:
Arne Emil Christensen, Viking Ship Museum, University Museum of National Antiquities, Frederiks gate 2, N-0164 Oslo, Norway
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Abstract

Dendrochronology now provides a date, exact nearly to the year, for three Viking Age burial mounds of special importance for chronology in Scandinavia and across early medieval northern Europe. Their dating used to depend on the style of the carved wooden artefacts in the grave goods; now the grave-goods are exactly and independently dated by the tree-rings, those same links will provide dating bridges across the Viking world.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 575 - 583
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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