Lejre Experimental Centre
- Lejre Experimental Centre
The Lejre Experimental Centre is a 106 acre (43 hectare) scientific laboratory in Lejre just outside of Roskilde, Denmark that was founded in 1964 by Hans-Ole Hansen. Scientists have recreated an Iron Age village (500 B.C.E. to 400 C.E.), a Viking habitation site (920 C.E), a stone age campsite (6000 B.C.E), and an 1863 farmstead with accompanying workshops, gardens, pastures, and fields. The recreations are based on archaeological evidence and historic documents.
Scientists and students live and work at Lejre, reenacting the roles of the people who lived in prehistoric and historic places like those recreated at Lejre. Experimenters have built (and burned down) residences and barns, raised livestock especially bred to resemble ancient farm animals, grown and processed crops, made cloth and clothes, cooked and eaten food like that eaten by prehistoric and historic people.
55.000 tourists and school children also visit the center each year.
External links
* [http://www.english.lejre-center.dk Lejre Experimental Centre]
* [http://www.allscandinavia.com/lejre.htm “Lejre,” at All Scandinavia]
* [http://www.lejre-center.dk the danish site]
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