Tingby house

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The approximately 8,500 year old Tingby House ( Swedish Tingbyhuset ) is Scandinavia's oldest house. A reconstruction stands today near the place of discovery on the site of a branch of the "Kalmar läns museum" in Kalmar in Sweden .

Between 1987 and 1989, the Kalmar Län Museum in Tingby, 10 km west of Kalmar, carried out safety excavations in an area in which a Mesolithic residential area was suspected. First a concentration of flint and local porphyry was discovered. The place was on a lagoon of the then coastline and was about 5300-5200 BC. BC (uncalibrated), i.e. late Boreal or early Atlantic . Lars G. Johansson doubts the dating, which in his opinion is based solely on the erroneous assignment of the Mesolithic finds to a later building by the excavators and is therefore a coincidence.

Building traces

The remains of the two-aisled rectangular wooden house of 8.8 × 3.5 m were found on the square. A concentration of Mesolithic finds was discovered northwest of the house. In connection with these finds, the excavation revealed a roughly crescent-shaped stone setting, the opening of which pointed to the northeast. The structure, surrounded by post and peg holes, was 8 m long and 4.3 m wide. There was a clear relationship to one another, which suggests simultaneity. The find was interpreted as the remains of an open hut. In addition to the house and hut, other features were found. Post holes, cooking pits, fire pits and two graves - one of which is an Iron Age cremation grave .

Single finds

The 5,100 individual finds consisted mainly of porphyry and flint , with interspersed quartz and green stone . The flint came mainly from the Kristianstad area, but also from other places.

The artifacts were microliths, spatulas, burins , cores, a porphyry ax and many blades and knives . Almost all of them were found inside or in close connection with the house. The artifacts in the hut area consisted of microliths, two core axes made of porphyry and a cutting ax, burin, spatula and many blades and knives.

A similar house was in Skåne found Tågerup.

literature

  • Lars G. Johansson: Var Tingbyhuset från Jernålderen? in: Popular arkeologi , 2/1989
  • Lars G. Johansson: Source Critism or Dilettanti? Some thoughts on "Scandinavian's Oldest House" in Tingby near Kalmar, Småland. in: Current Swedish Archeology , 1/1993

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Coordinates: 56 ° 41 ′ 6.3 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  E