Vorbasse

Migration Period settlement in southern Jutland, Denmark of the 4th-5th centuries, a planned village of longhouses. Each house was divided into three rooms with two or three minor buildings. There was also a series of sunken-floored workshops in the last phase. After its abandonment in the 5th century, the settlement was not reoccupied until the Viking period. In the 10th century, Vorbasse was turned into three major estates, each incorporating a large 'Trelleborg type' hall with associated workshops.

Settlement in southern Jutland, Denmark. Excavations have dated its origins to the Migration Period (4th and 5th centuries) when it took the form of a planned village consisting of a series of sturdy long houses. Each house was divided into three rooms (living room, stall and bam) with two or three accompanying minor buildings, and each unit was neatly portioned into a square croft and laid out into rows. In the last phase there was also a series of sunken-floored workshops. After its abandonment in the 5th century the settlement was not reoccupied until the Viking period when there were groups of hall houses and sunken huts for a short period. In the 10th century all this was drastically altered when Vorbasse was turned into three major estates, each of which incorporated a large ‘Trelleborg type’ hall with associated workshops within a large enclosure. It may be that these estates devoted to stock rearing were in some way connected to the Jellinge royal house.