An area with forge pits from the Iron and Middle Ages is located in a bay near Buerstad in Færder... more An area with forge pits from the Iron and Middle Ages is located in a bay near Buerstad in Færder municipality, Vestfold. Have ships been built and repaired here in the Iron and Middle Ages? The pits are interpreted as open forges designed and built in the simplest possible way to solve a task. Instead of setting up a building, one chooses to dig a working pit and place the hearth on the edge of the pit. After the forge goes out of use, it is filled again with local pulp, slag and coal from the forge and abandoned. A few decades or a hundred years later, they choose to build a new pit forge in almost the same place. A possible explanation for this pattern could be that people build or repair boats in the bay.
An area with forge pits from the Iron and Middle Ages is located in a bay near Buerstad in Færder... more An area with forge pits from the Iron and Middle Ages is located in a bay near Buerstad in Færder municipality, Vestfold. Have ships been built and repaired here in the Iron and Middle Ages? The pits are interpreted as open forges designed and built in the simplest possible way to solve a task. Instead of setting up a building, one chooses to dig a working pit and place the hearth on the edge of the pit. After the forge goes out of use, it is filled again with local pulp, slag and coal from the forge and abandoned. A few decades or a hundred years later, they choose to build a new pit forge in almost the same place. A possible explanation for this pattern could be that people build or repair boats in the bay.
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The pits are interpreted as open forges designed and built in the simplest possible way to solve a task. Instead of setting up a building, one chooses to dig a working pit and place the hearth on the edge of the pit. After the forge goes out of use, it is filled again with local pulp, slag and coal from the forge and abandoned. A few decades or a hundred years later, they choose to build a new pit forge in almost the same place. A possible explanation for this pattern could be that people build or repair boats in the bay.
The pits are interpreted as open forges designed and built in the simplest possible way to solve a task. Instead of setting up a building, one chooses to dig a working pit and place the hearth on the edge of the pit. After the forge goes out of use, it is filled again with local pulp, slag and coal from the forge and abandoned. A few decades or a hundred years later, they choose to build a new pit forge in almost the same place. A possible explanation for this pattern could be that people build or repair boats in the bay.