Ismantorp Fortress
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Ismantorp Fortress ({{langx|sv|Ismantorps fornborg}}) is the ruins of a ringfort located on Öland Island in Sweden.
Description
One of approximately 20 known ringforts located on Öland, Ismantorp was constructed during the Migration Period.
Ismantorp was never permanently occupied following its construction in about 200 CE, but used occasionally until abandoned around 650 CE.{{Cite book |last=Andrén |first=Anders |editor-last=Andrén |editor-first=Anders |editor2-last=Jennbert |editor2-first=Kristina|contribution=A World of Stone: Warrior Culture, Hybridity, and Old-Norse Cosmology |title=Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions|publisher=Nordic Academic Press |year=2006 |location=Lund, Sweden |pages=33–38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjq6rvoIRpAC |isbn=91-89116-81-X|display-editors=etal}} The ringfort consists of a limestone wall approximately 300 meters long and has nine gates. Inside the ringfort are 95 houses arranged in 12 blocks around a central open area with a circular building. Ismantorp is the largest{{Cite book |last=Magnus |first=Bente |editor-last=Jesch |editor-first=Judith |contribution=Dwellings and Settlements: Structures and Characteristics |title=The Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century: an Ethnographic Perspective |publisher=Boydell Press |year=2002 |pages=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWYhnTuI2NoC |isbn=0-85115-867-6}} and probably the oldest of the ringforts on Öland.
The castle was visited by Carl Linnaeus on his trip to Öland.{{Cite web |title=Litteraturbanken {{!}} Svenska klassiker som e-bok och epub |url=https://litteraturbanken.se/f%C3%B6rfattare/Linn%C3%A9Cvon/titlar/%C3%96l%C3%A4ndskaOchGotl%C3%A4ndskaResa/sida/vii/faksimil |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=litteraturbanken.se}}
Gallery
Image:Ismantorp view01.jpg
Image:Ismantorp view02.jpg
Image:Ismantorp house walls01.jpg
Image:Ismantorp house walls02.jpg
Image:Ismantorp entrance gate01.jpg
Image:Ismantorp entrance gate02.jpg
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090809103915/http://www.raa.se/cms/en/places_to_visit/our_historical_sites/ismantorp_fortress.html Ismantorp Fortress]
- [http://wikimapia.org/4238933/Ismantorp-Fortress Aerial photograph] from WikiMapia
Category:Archaeological sites in Sweden
Category:Castles in Kalmar County
Category:Borgholm Municipality
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