Vikings

Archaeologists armed with a motorized high resolution georadar found a Viking ship and a large number of burial mounds and longhouses in Østfold County in Norway.

Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition London 2015 In Summer 2015, the LBI ArchPro was part of the UK’s most prestigious science exhibition. The institute was showcasing its ground-breaking work at Stonehenge in an exhibit set up in London together with project partner oft he „Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes“-project, the University of Birmingham.

Wikinger! – Schallaburg The LBI ArchPro was an official cooperation-partner of the “VIKINGS!”-exhibition hosted by the Schallaburg castle in Austria in 2015. The institute contributed to the exhibition with a large-scale milled relief model of the Viking Age site Birka based on airborne laser scanning measurements.

The Viking Age settlement and trading place Birka-Hovgården at Swedish Lake Mälaren was founded in the 8th century AD and is one of the best-preserved Scandinavian Viking Age settlements and burial places. On Björkö, Sweden’s largest assembly of Iron Age burial mounds is found in the grave field Hemlanden (‘Homeland’). The rulers of Birka are believed to have resided at Hovgården on nearby Adelsö.

The large-scale archaeological prospection Case Study ‘Vestfold’ conducted by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro) in collaboration with its partners Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) and Vestfold fylkeskommune (Vfk) focuses on several Iron Age and Viking Age monuments in the region south of Oslo.

A short radio interview about the 2015 Scientist of the Year award.