Hi Eve,
It's far from Estonia, but I published a cattle byre from Orkney in:
Barrett, J H, (ed) 2012 Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge
You can download most of the chapters open access from my ResearchGate page, or order the book from Oxbow or Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Islander-Production-Institute-Monograph/dp/1902937619
Best wishes,
James
On Mar 4 2017, Eve Rannamäe wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I tried to search that topic in zooarch archive, but didn't manage to find
>any previous discussions. Also, I did a quick Google search, but didn't
>manage to get related papers (maybe I used the wrong key words?).
>
>My question is about *animal shelters/cattle-sheds/barns* (I'm not really
>sure which would be the best English word) and how were they built.
>The period I'm interested in, is especially the *Viking Age*, but
>information from any other time period would be welcome as well.
>
>Why I ask, is that this summer in Estonia we plan to add another (and
>probably the last) building to our Viking Age experimental farmstead in
>Rõuge (the webpage is under renovation, but you can check us also in FB
>https://www.facebook.com/muinastalu/) and this building will be a
>cattle-shed - a permanent wooden house, which locates among other farm
>buildings (between the storehouse and smithy).
>
>In Estonia we don't have any certain evidence of how the cattle-sheds might
>have been built a thousand years ago. Were they made of proper logs or of
>some lighter twigs, did they have any stone foundation or not, were they
>rather ventilated or kind of airless (to keep warm), etc.
>
>I would appreciate any ideas and recommendations for archaeological studies
>from northeastern Europe as well as from rest of the Europe.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Best regards,
>Eve Rannamäe, PhD
>Researcher
>Department of Archaeology
>Institute of History and Archaeology
>University of Tartu
>Estonia
>
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