Reconstruction of Viking Age house

Experimental archeology project to reconstruct traditional Viking age log house with clay floor and board roof, while using as authentic tools and methods as possible, started on the summer of 2010 near the Rõuge stronghold hill. Reconstruction is based on existing archeological and ethnographic materials. The building is based on the house base witch was found turning the 1955 year archeologycal dig on the stronghold hill.

Building, built in the summer, will be taken in to use in the next years winter when 5-6 people will try to inhabit it for a week. In this phase information will be collected about the living conditions on the iron age.

E-mail: vpajukas@ut.ee