<< Our Photo Pages >> Aggersborg Vikingeborg - Hillfort in Denmark in Nordjylland
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Aggersborg Vikingeborg Alternative Name: Aggersborg Viking FortressCountry: Denmark County: Nordjylland Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Aalborg Nearest Village: Aggersund
Latitude: 56.995427N Longitude: 9.254704E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Podovsky visited on 15th Aug 2019 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Danish registry 100701-5
"Aggersborg by the Limfjord is the largest of Denmark's so-called "slave castles" from the Viking Age. The circular plant has a diameter of 240 m. The ring wall surrounding the castle square is almost a kilometer long. Within the castle have been a whole 12 building carriages with four large long houses in each, ie. 48 houses in total. Aggersborg has thus been far larger than both Trelleborg and Fyrkat. Common to the Viking castles is the strictly geometric structure with a cruciform midway oriented exactly to the corners of the world. The current structure is a reconstruction and merely marks where the original and much higher structure has gone. Aggersborg is probably listed at about the same time as Trelleborg and Fyrkat, around the year 980."
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