400 Iron Age houses in Denmark

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"The village covers an area equal to nine football pitches and was constructed in multiple periods of the Iron Age. All of the houses are dated to between 300 and 600 CE and Juul estimates that the area consisted of between eight and ten farms."

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The houses are primarily wooden and measure, on average, 33 metres long by 5.5 metres wide. Juul suspects that all the residents were farmers who worked the land. Objects discovered on site suggest that some were skilled in iron and pottery production, which were typical of the period."Archaeologists are now studying the houses closely in the hopes of discovering more about this relatively unknown period in Jelling's history, before it became a centre of power under King Harold Bluetooth in the 10th century.
 

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