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Borg I:Ib

Site/Artefact Borg farm number 93 Type House remains from Borg I:Ib Site Number Nr. 4b NGO Grid Reference 22493,1 1141836,1 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Description
Borg I:Ib represents the earliest phase of the house-remains found during the main excavation. Dating indicates that this building was erected around AD 450 and rebuilt AD 700. Around 700 AD, the house is extended (Borg I:Ia). Excavations of these two house structures indicate a long term habitation from the period AD 450 to c  950 AD.

Why did the people choose to rebuild the house about AD 700? And what kind of changes do we recognise at these Sacred Heights from paganism towards Christianity?

Excavation Details
House site I:Ib represents the oldest settlement phase of the two building-remains found during excavations of settlement structure I at Borg. The house foundations had a length of 67 m, and were about 8 m wide. Dating based on artefact typology and the c-14 method, indicates settlement activity with a time span between AD 450- c. AD 700. The end of phase one, marks a change when a new building is being put up: House I:Ia, the Chieftains house, obviously wider and longer.

Access/Ownership
Lofotr Vikingmuseum at Borg

References

• Borg in Lofoten- a chieftains farm in Northern Norway, Red.: Gerd S. Munch, Olav Sverre Johansen and Else Roesdahl. Arkeologiske Skrifter nr. 1, Lofotr- Vikingmuseet p Borg2003.

Check out the following sections of the website for related information:

• More information about finds and observations at house structure I:Ib.
• Iron Age
• Other imported artefacts from the later Iron Age.

Vestvågøy Sites and Artefacts

1. Borg 2. Buksnesfjorden 3. Bøstad 4. Eggum 5. Einangen 6. Eltoft 7. Holsneset 8. Holsøya 9. Kvalnes 10. Moland 11. Nykmark 12. Skjerpen 13. Trollsteinen 14. Uttakleiv 15. Vendalsjord 16. The Stone Crosses 17. Malnes 18. Borg Burial Mounds 19. Borg Burial Mounds 20. Borg Roman House Site 21. Borg House Remains I:Ia 23. Borg I:Ib 24. Borg House Remains 25. Borg - Midden

26. Borg House Site 27. Borg House Sites 28. Borg Farm Ruins 29. Borg Medieval Sites 30. Borg Burial Mounds 31. Borg Possible Settlement 32. Borg Medieval House Site 33. Borg Boat Houses 34. Burial Mound 35. Burial Mound 36. Borg Burial Mound 37. Borg Modern Church 38. Bøstad Burial Cairn 39. Bøstad Removed Burials 40. Bøstad - Courtyard 41. Boat House and Burial 42. Bøstad House Sites 43. Bøstad Farm Mound 44. Rystad Boat Houses 45. Rystad Burial Mound 46. Burial and Farm Mound 47. Rystad Burial Mound 48. Rystad - Burials 49. Rystad Burial Cairn 50. Handberg Charcoal-Pits

51. Handberg Farm Mound 52. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 1 53. Handberg Charcoal Pit -2 54. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 3 55. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 4 56. Handberg Charcoal Pits 57. Handberg Charcoal Pit 58. Vendalsjord 59. Lie Burial Mound 60. Lie Boat House 61. Lie 62. Løvdal 63. Borgfjord Indre 64. Sletteng 65. Borgfjord Ytre 66. Ytre Borgfjord - Burial 67. Borgfjord Ytre 68. Ytre Borgfjord 69. Borgfjord Ytre 70. Hagvåg Boat House 71. Hagvåg Burial Mound 72. Hagvåg Bridge Construction 73. Evjen Farm Mound

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