The Moesgård Museum has found 15 settlements of Vikings

The archaeologists of the Moesgård Museum have gathered to investigate an interesting place of the age of Vikings situated to the north of Aarhus. Here the archaeologists have found a large group of so-called mine houses, separate wells and a prolonged settlement track.

On the big territory of about 8 000 sq. m. the Museum has found approximately 15 mine houses and several wells. The mine houses are situated very close to each other on a low slope. On the investigated territory there is another wider allocated track of a separate house, that`s why the find is evaluated as a group of houses related to workshops. They could be situated a little higher.

Mine houses are typical by its location for early iron age and the age of Vikings. There were huts half a meter underground and often with a ground floor. To hold a roof two strong digged in poles were usually used. Other mine houses investigations show us that ,as a rule, there were craftsmen unions, especially of textile, blacksmith`s work, wood work and tanning industry.

You can see the mine house reconstruction in the Vikings Museum on St. Clement Square and among Vikings houses, behind a children`s playground, at the back side of the The Moesgård Museum.