Viire Pajuste and her Viking Age experiment receives good coverage in the Estonian media. Photo: Anna Kolossova
Viking age experiment
May 15, 2015
A slideshow demonstrating the process of constructing an Iron Age loghouse in Rõuge, Estonia.
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Viire Pajuste and her Viking Age experiment receives good coverage in the Estonian media.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Transporting logs the Iron Age way.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Lifting and placing logs requires teamwork.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
A reinvented measurement tool with a level.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Someone else should be helping up there too.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Drawing wisdom from books and experts.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Birch bark is used to insulate the house.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
Most work is done using 9 axes, which are copies of the Iron Age ones.
Photo: Viire Pajuste
Pretty close to the Iron Age look.
Photo: Viire Pajuste
Building a ladder from branches to climb the walls.
Photo: Viire Pajuste
Osier is used to weave ropes for measuring the house’s diagonals.
Photo: Viire Pajuste
The floor of the house is made from earth and clay.
Photo: Anna Kolossova
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