Antwerp (Belgium) – a ninth-century Viking town? From Early Medieval trading place to Ottonian power centre Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In Antwerp, the Department of Archaeology of the City of Antwerp, supported by the developer of the site, Immpact, as well as the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Flemish Heritage Institute were able to develop large-scale excavations in the oldest centre of the town in 2008-2009. This oldest centre is the so-called "Burg" of Antwerp, a D-shaped fortress that goes back to at least the Ottonian period (FIG 1). Already in the 1950s and 1960s, ...