Project Details: Harbours of the North Atlantic (AD 800-1300) (HaNoA)

Project Description

Parent Project Title: Sub Projects	Harbours of the North Atlantic AD 800-1300 Modelling changes in the coastal geomorphology of Unst, Shetland and the implications for understanding High to Late Medieval harbour changes in the Scandinavian North Atlantic
Title:	Harbours of the North Atlantic (AD 800-1300) (HaNoA)
Description	The core aims of the project are: to investigate possible port facilities and their functions by studying medieval written sources, to examine the topography of ports in relation to navigational aids (e.g. landmarks), ballast fields, the seabed and the locations of landing-places and port facilities on land, to refine and consolidate the so-called fetch method to localise and evaluate ports or landing-places, to analyse ballast as an archaeological source for the first time, in order to gain an understanding of the origins of trading vessels and the volume of maritime trade, and to ascertain the most reliable indicators for the elusive ports of the Viking period and the Middle Ages in the North Atlantic.
Keywords:	harbours Viking Medieval trade
Sponsors/Funders	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Council)
Country	Faroe Islands
Project Start Year	2013
Project End Year	2018

Contact:	Natascha Mehler
Address	Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Schifffahrtsgeschichte Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 27568 Bremerhaven
Website	http://www.dsm.museum/ueber-uns/team/mehler.5801.de.html
Email	Mehler@dsm.museum