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Trelleborg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. O. Skilbeck
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The wonderful find at Trelleborg: near Slagelse in Denmark is all too little known in this country. In fact the name of Trelleborg itself is practically unknown, or confused with the town of the same name in Sweden.

The site is one of the most important earthworks in Denmark. The rampart measures 25 metres in thickness. It lies on the eastern shore of the Great Belt, and as Herr Poul Nörlund, the explorer of the site, himself says of it: ‘Trelleborg lies even now so much out of the way that there are few places in the much built-up coast of Vestsjæland which are so difficult to find, with no direct road leading to it’.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 55 , September 1940 , pp. 272 - 279
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1940

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