Ribe Excavations 1970-76, Volume 5

This is the fifth and last volume in a series presenting the results of one of Scandinavia's most important excavations, carried out in the town of Ribe in southern Denmark from 1970-76. There, researchers extracted remains of a permanent settlement and marketplace founded in 704-710. The findings revealed an 8th-century trading site of a character never seen before in the Scandinavian region, and this has put Denmark in a new light in North-European development of this period. Volume 5 compa…