Sandby_Borg_AMA

If we where to dig the whole ring fort (and the outside) it would take severel years. 10-20 perhapes, if we have funding for it! That is way we try to dig one house at the time from now on./Helena Victor

The Ring fort have always been know, since it is such a huge structure. But the finds were found in 2010. While doing som geophysical studies in the fort some looting pits were found. Archaeologist then searced the fort with metal detectors and the high quality brooches were found (http://www.sandbyborg.se/the-artefacts.html). We then decided to dig where the brooches lay and we then found the bodies. /Helena Victor

We think that the fort was "forbidden area" for people on Öland. I was probably some kind of neighbours that attacked them as a manifestation of power more than for plundering. It was a very vicious attack, made to put fear in all inhabitants of Öland. They then forbid anyone from burying the bodies or enter the fort. The fear seems to have lived on in the memory of people and even still today, there are a lot of people who grew up close to the fort that have heared that the fort is a plce you don't visit, a dangeous place./Helena Victor

We cover up the ruins again. It is the law. And we want to because the site is very beautiful and should remain beutiful. Thera are also a lot of cattle grazing the area and we wouldn't like them to get hurt!/Helena Victor

The similarities is mostly that we get a glimpse of everyday life on both sites. But Skara Brae dosent contain the elite finds and ROman import we find in Sandby borg. An lastly, but certainly not leastly - we have the bodies of the inhabitans (we thonk at least) lying where they were slaughterd! That is the not the case in Skara Brae. At Sandby borg we have a frozen moment in time which doesn-t really exist in Skara Brae./Helena Victor